PEOPLE’S Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Member of the Region 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam) Regional Democratic Council (RDC), Mr. Brian Persaud has joined in criticising the two Parliamentary Opposition parties, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and Alliance for Change (AFC), for cutting the National Budget by some $21.3B. Speaking at a statutory meeting of the RDC, he said the cut will deprive young people of jobs and laptop commuters and, as a councilor, he is condemning the action.
As he spoke, there was the loud desk thumping in the boardroom at Anna Regina, on Essequibo Coast, by PPP/C Member of Parliament (MP) Cornel Damon, who was present.
Persaud declared it is very shameful for the Opposition parties to reduce the budgetary allocations, stop development and claim they have a right to do so.
He said the Government has brought Guyana from a state of begging to a nation that is on the road to prosperity and the opposition APNU and AFC are both jealous of the progress.
According to Persaud, reduction of the Budget will affect ordinary Guyanese and the nation has seen the true colours of APNU and AFC.

He said AFC MP Khemraj Ramjattan is a bitter man, who is an enemy to development and progress in Guyana.
Residents of Moruca and Manawarin, in Region One (Barima/Waini) are the latest to castigate the Parliamentary Opposition parties, over the cuts to the 2012 National Budget.
Gathered at community meetings, they, collectively, declared that the alliance had done a great injustice to Amerindians by reducing the allocations.
At Kumaka, last Saturday, they said the reductions will, definitely, affect them and their families and stop development in their communities.
They said it is very hard to forgive the Opposition for their heartless decisions which are not in the interest of the country.
The Amerindians said they are sad and disappointed at the Opposition parties cutting the provisions and keeping back development.
One resident of Kwebanna, Oswald Samuels said the Opposition is wrong to cause people suffering.
Another man, Jeremy Garrido said the political move by the Opposition is because they want to fight for poor people’s votes but what they are doing is only making Amerindians suffer.
He said the Opposition has to try real hard but still would not get his vote next time around. It will not be easy for them, especially when they come to Moruca and Manawarin.
John Henry, of Moruca, concurred that the Budget cuts will affect everyone and agreed that the Opposition has done a great injustice to villagers, as well.
“We cannot listen to them, anymore,” he declared.
Those attending the meetings also supported the call for snap elections, maintaining that the Government must be allowed to carry out its development programme for people to benefit.
Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Alli Baksh addressed the gatherings on how the Budget cuts will affect national development, including the $1M in Presidential Grants to Amerindian communities.
He recalled that, when the PPP/C came to office in 1992, the country was bankrupt, with large sums owed to foreign countries and it was the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan who went about begging countries to write off debts so Guyana can be developed.
Baksh said, today, when this country is moving forward, the Opposition APNU, led by “the old tiger” People’s National Congress (PNC), is now stopping development when it was they who wrecked it during 28 years of dictator rule.