Describing the 2019 National Budget as a disappointment, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said last night that it is laced with unnecessary spending and increased taxes, which will cause additional hardship on the populace.
“We cannot support this budget. Not in its current formulation. We spoke to them, we put out an ad to the effect of some of the things we would like to see. They paid no heed to any of the concerns of the opposition or the people,” he told reporters at a press conference at parliament shortly after Finance Minister Winston Jordan ended an almost five-hour-long budget presentation.
Jagdeo who sat through the entire presentation repeatedly stressed to the media that there is nothing in the $300.7B budget that speaks to job creation or provides comfort to businesspersons.