Gov’t flayed over budget estimates

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira during one of several interventions yesterday in Parliament. (Keno George photo)

Consideration of the 2015 budget estimates was snagged in hours of controversy yesterday after the opposition PPP/C argued that the government had violated its own recently passed laws relative to constitutional agencies and the new ministries which were created following the May general elections.

Amid high drama and a flurry of meetings between the two sides, the arguments by the opposition severely delayed what was supposed to be a 9.30 am start to assuage concerns over the constricting of the consideration of estimates to three days. At 8 pm yesterday,