{"id":15959,"date":"2024-01-26T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15959"},"modified":"2024-01-26T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:19:36","slug":"debating-sports-budget-in-guyana-opposition-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/debating-sports-budget-in-guyana-opposition-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Debating Sports Budget in Guyana: Opposition Raises Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>The debate over Guyana&#8217;s 2024 budget allocation took a turn toward sports on Tuesday, with Opposition Member of Parliament Nima Flue-Bess raising questions about what she perceives as &#8216;incomplete&#8217; sports projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Sports Charles Ramson Jr responded, criticizing the opposition for their alleged lack of vision during their time in government and emphasizing that these projects are multi-year initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flue-Bess sought answers regarding the status of projects that were budgeted for but remain incomplete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also inquired about the completion of the Sport policy last year, a matter addressed by Minister Ramson during the 2023 review. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramson assured the Parliament that the Sport policy document would be tabled in the first quarter of the current year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Ramson acknowledged that while sport facilities have been a point of contention, the PPP\/C government is committed to revolutionizing the sports culture by constructing world-class facilities, which take time to complete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He criticized the previous coalition government&#8217;s decision to reduce expenditure for maintaining community grounds, highlighting that the government is now investing hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade 350 grounds across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramson outlined the government&#8217;s initiatives, including setting up international standard lights at various locations and implementing world-class drainage at multipurpose grounds under construction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The completion of synthetic grounds in Linden and Berbice is also slated for this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the debate continues, both sides present their perspectives on sports budget allocations, addressing concerns about incomplete projects and outlining future plans for the development of sports facilities in Guyana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The debate over Guyana&#8217;s 2024 budget allocation took a turn toward sports on Tuesday, with Opposition Member of Parliament Nima Flue-Bess raising questions about what she perceives as &#8216;incomplete&#8217; sports&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","category-top-picks"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15960,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15959\/revisions\/15960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}