As the five days of debate on the government’s proposed $267.1 billion national budget for 2018 drew to a close yesterday, both Finance Minister Winston Jordan and Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo sought to debunk claims by the opposition that there is in it “nothing for the ordinary man.”
Jordan, who closed the debate in the National Assembly last evening, stressed that under the proposed measures “everyone will benefit” and added that regardless of the criticism his government will perform its duties.
“We are not afraid of criticism,” he said before noting that the state of the sugar industry is a national problem which requires a national solution.
A majority of the opposition parliamentarians had
