AG says at flag raising ceremony
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Charles Ramson said government has been spending billions of dollars and continues to do so to promote major developmental works in Region Four.
Ramson, who is also Minister of Legal Affairs, rebuffed suggestions that Region Four has been neglected and pointed out various projects in the national budget to be undertaken there.
The Attorney General, who was speaking at the flag raising ceremony in the region, stated that government has been providing the 65 Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) with a substantial amount of cash in the form of subventions.
He pointed out that nearly $300M has been earmarked this year for road rehabilitation works and another $30M towards agriculture in the Cane-Grove and Enmore communities.
Ramson noted that a number of bridges in several areas, including Bachelor’s Adventure, Enterprise , Ann’s Grove, Earle’s Court, Success, Bladen Hall and Melanie Damishana, are to cost millions.
He added that $1B has been provided for in the budget to make the sanitary landfill in the region operational to curb illegal activities at the Mandela site and relieve the city of litter.
“We have gone a far way in developing this country, not because we’re celebrating 40 years as a republic.”
Ramson stressed that Guyana is the only country that has not been affected by fiscal deficit or that seeks to cut cost by reducing the public service.
He revealed that some Caribbean countries have been rationing water and shutting down major industries.
“That is the kind of thing happening just next door, and nobody is comparing it. Had it not been for the tight fiscal control of the Finance Minister and the President, we would not have been able to do that.”
The Attorney General chided the media for harping on the negatives and remarked that Guyana has been adjudged the “most generous country in the world”.
“ Guyana has agreed to take 100 babies with 10 chaperones with the permission of the Haitian Government…If we didn’t have, we couldn’t give,” Ramson said. (GINA)