Introduction
Even before the debate on the 2012 Budget begins, it is overtaken by an event not outside the control of the government, but well within it, an event that has been in the pipeline for years. Drs Jagdeo and Ashni Singh and their loyal servant Mr Winston Brassington had been speaking about, offering and negotiating to sell the government’s 20% shareholding in the telecommunication company Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T) for at least three years. Yet the Finance Minister could not find a place in his 87 page speech to alert the plebians