APNU Leader David Granger yesterday called for the establishment of a tripartite budget committee before the end of the year to oversee the preparation of the 2012 national budget, which must be presented to the House before March 30, 2012.
Granger, in a release, indicated that this was in the light of the parliamentary minority that the PPP/C will have in the National Assembly when Parliament is convened later this month. He said it would be inadvisable for the PPP/C administration to proceed to prepare a budget to be brought before the National Assembly without prior consultation with the opposition APNU and AFC.
The budget, Granger said, must be presented to