Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman yesterday ruled that a move by the opposition for the withdrawal of a financial paper was out of order, clearing the way for the eventual approval of government’s supplementary budget spending from last year.
The Supplementary Appropriation Bill No. 1 of 2012 was passed without the inclusion of four items voted down by the opposition from one of its two supporting financial papers—a move that Trotman said was not out of order, while adding that Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh may