Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday clarified that while no “special” legislation will be put in place for the planned $100,000 disbursement to all adults it will be covered by a supplementary appropriation in Parliament.
“I said we are not going to pass a special act called (a) cash grant act. If we had to do that we would have had to pass one for the business grant and everything. It is all covered under the FMAA and also under these special acts that emanate from the constitutional process of appropriating funds. So they have legislative approval. The 60 billion (dollars) or whatever it comes up to (for the $100,000 grant) will go to the parliament; there will be a full debate there, and then once it’s passed it will be put into a supplementary act, assented to by the president, published in the Official Gazette, and then the funds would be available”, he said at a press conference.