The National Assembly last evening approved a total of $116.3M in supplementary funds for the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), after House Speaker Dr Barton Scotland overruled objections by the opposition PPP/C to the manner in which the requests for the allocations were made.
The allocations were contained in Financial Paper No. 2, which Finance Minister Winston Jordan laid in the House last week to request supplementary provisions totalling $2,514,679,330 on the current and capital estimates for the period January to December, 2017.
The requested allocations included the sum of $89,897,285, which was sought by the Ministry of Legal Affairs for five managerial staff, 13 technical staff, 12 supervisory and clerical staff, and 12 services and related staff for SARA.