Budget offers no plan for the future – Jagdeo

While accusing the government of being unkind to those operating in key sectors, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Friday said that the proposed 2018 budget brings burdens and offers no plan for the future.

The former president was making his presentation on the final day of the budget debate and devoted a small part of his three-hour speech to highlight what the previous PPP/C administration did for Linden, a PNCR stronghold.

Shouting above banging and heckling, Jagdeo while looking at empty government benches said that the budget presented by the Finance Minister contained lots of unnecessary information and offered nothing that could