The opposition is questioning government’s attempt to go ahead with the construction of the US$18M specialty hospital at Turkeyen despite the $1.25 billion allocation proposed for the facility being chopped during this year’s budget consideration.
“There is a big question mark on government projects… there must not be expenditure of government funds [outside] of [the] approval of the National Assembly. The rules are very clear but the government seems to have created some way to bypass this and we feel that is not legal,” main opposition APNU leader David Granger told Stabroek News yesterday.
Granger stated that when the National Assembly resumes from its annual recess in October, the issue of