With a bigger budget, the Region Six administration expects to deliver major investments this year, including in education.
Regional officials told a news conference last Friday that the $6,462,560,000 budget for 2018 represents an increase of $362 million over last year’s budget. The region has been allocated $5,918,360,000 for its current programme and just over $544 million for its capital programme.
Regional Chairman of Region Six David Armogan noted that in 2017, the region was given a total of $6.1 billion, of which it spent some 99.16%. “I think it is a commendable performance, especially when we take into account that [at] the mid-year we were just over 30%. So for the second half of the year we were able to push ahead and complete all the works we had allocated for 2017,” he said.
He then explained, that the current budget