The 2007 budget has received the blessings of the National Assembly but many of the pertinent questions remain unanswered and important issues were ignored, the PNCR-1G contends.
Chairman Winston Murray in a presentation of his party’s analysis of the 2007 budget yesterday said PPP/C members of parliament refused or were unable to respond to the issues raised by his party and so the questions raised by the opposition were for the most part left unanswered.
“It was difficult not to get the feeling that the PPP/C members of parliament were either deaf or could not care less about the views being expressed. . . speaker after speaker on the government’s side stuck to his/her script,” he added.
Murray, who read the party’s press statement, said however that the greatest disappointment of all came in the winding up presentation of Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh.
Murray said the party had looked forward with some amount of hope for the minister to at least offer proper responses to some of the major issues raised, or at a minimum, comment on them.
“Instead he swung into high gear as a PPP/C politician, eschewing logic and reason
