Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday rebuffed criticisms of his proposed $230B national budget by the opposition PPP/C, which he accused of deliberately misleading the public to stymie development and derail efforts at building national unity.
“It is the strategy to put these claims out there so you waste your energies explaining and all other things that need to be done get left but I won’t fall into that trap… at the end of five years the people of Guyana don’t want to know who won a budget debate, they want to know what you have done for them. It is by your works that you will be judged,” he declared.
As he stood to “wind up” the five days of debate in the National Assembly, Jordan questioned if the opposition’s