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Granger’s comments on budget cuts disturbing – Edghill

Jun 11, 2013 News

 

 

The Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh has responded to an article, attributed to leader of the Combined Opposition, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, who reportedly said that the 2013 budget cuts have had no impact on the operations of Government.
The Finance Minister called the position “unnerving.”
“I am not sure of the basis on which he arrived at his conclusion, but we have before us clear evidence of the impact of the budget cut.”
Dr Singh said that the news from GPL in relation to the proposed tariff increase “not only drives home the grave implication of the cuts imposed, but I believe drives home the urgency of the Amaila Falls Project.”
He called for the Combined Opposition to come out clearly and definitively articulate its position on the Hydro Power Project.
Junior Finance Minister, Juan Edghill, who also addressed the proposed tariff increase, asked whether it was a case where the political opposition was looking to deliberately set the stage for street protests as a result of people’s inability to pay the increase
He said that politics should be about issues and not personality.
He reminded of the line of questioning in the Parliamentary Committee of Supply prior to the slash earlier this year.
Edghill suggested that even with the relevant information regarding the repercussions of a cut to the GPL subsidy, it was still effected.
Responding to the claims by Granger that the cuts have not had have an impact; Edghill suggested that “one could only think he was not well advised.”
The Junior Finance Minister said that Government did warn that 160,000 households will be affected.
“Is he creating a platform for political instability? Are they using people as pawns by brining suffering and untold difficulty?”

 

 

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