APNU+AFC Member of Parliament, Khemraj Ramjattan during his presentation on the 2024 budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday deplored the government’s allocation to infrastructure as according to him more money should have been apportioned to lowering the cost of living in the country. According to Ramjattan, citizens should brace for 2024 to be one of the hardest years as the cost of living is expected to rise even more. “A nation must invest in ending poverty and its working poor must get a better deal… I feel that that has not happened with the budget, it is important then that we feel that these monies should have been more spread across rather than being given largely to what I regard as a 1000 contractor cronies capitalists who will benefit from that $662b.”