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Dr. Lloyd: Offer Still Stands For National Government
PHILIPBURG--The offer to form a national government still stands, United People’s (UP) party Member of Parliament (MP) Dr. Lloyd Richardson said at the resumption of the handling of the draft 2016 budget in Parliament on Thursda Read more
Mps Pepper Ministers With Questions In Budget Debate
Independent MP Leona Marlin-Romeo (standing) speaks in the budget debate on Monday.
PHILIPSBURG--The 2016 draft budget was tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Richard Gibson on Monday morning in Parliament House. Members of Parliament (MPs), who had up to 90 minutes to speak, peppered the Council of Ministers with a barrage of questions spanning from the budget and Government policies to general topics of interest.
The seven Ministers, who all made presentations about the working of their Ministries on Monday, will be back in Parliament today, Tuesday, starting at 2:00pm to deliver answers to the questions from MPs Read more
‘Shotgun Budget’ Tabled In Parliament By Gibson
Finance Minister Richard Gibson (right) with MP Maurice Lake.
PHILIPSBURG--Parliament is faced with a “shotgun budget†as the draft 2016 budget was described by Finance Minister Richard Gibson Read more
PHILIPSBURG--Parliament is faced with a “shotgun budget†as the draft 2016 budget was described by Finance Minister Richard Gibson. The Minister tabled the budget, totaling NAf 438,000 in the Central Committee meeting of Parliament on this morning.
There is “no time to do the budget as it should have been done†and to get all policies from the seven ministries covered, said the Minister Read more