{"id":26535,"date":"2025-02-09T03:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26535"},"modified":"2025-02-28T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:41:50","slug":"jagdeo-dismisses-oppositions-criticism-of-budget-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-dismisses-oppositions-criticism-of-budget-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Dismisses Opposition&#8217;s Criticism of Budget 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>January 23, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President and PPP General Secretary, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has rejected the opposition&#8217;s criticisms of Budget 2025, calling them a &#8220;lazy response&#8221; to a well-thought-out fiscal document. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Jagdeo, the opposition\u2019s remarks are nothing more than &#8220;dimwitted and comical,&#8221; failing to provide any substantive analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his comments, Dr. Jagdeo criticized the opposition&#8217;s approach of offering theoretical solutions that do not reflect the real challenges the country faces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He particularly pointed to the opposition&#8217;s emphasis on one-off cash grants, which he described as a sign of the opposition&#8217;s economic policy to &#8220;share out what we don\u2019t have.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rather than developing the country, they\u2019re focusing on distributing funds without any clear long-term strategy,&#8221; Jagdeo stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government&#8217;s position will be further defended in the upcoming budget debates, which are set to begin on Friday, January 24. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo emphasized that the ruling party&#8217;s MPs are well-prepared to present the final and most ambitious budget of their term in office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2025 Vice President and PPP General Secretary, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has rejected the opposition&#8217;s criticisms of Budget 2025, calling them a &#8220;lazy response&#8221; to a well-thought-out fiscal document.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2025","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535","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=26535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26536,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26535\/revisions\/26536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}