{"id":26704,"date":"2025-02-20T21:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=26704"},"modified":"2025-02-20T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T21:51:40","slug":"jagdeo-slams-oppositions-budget-proposals-as-contradictory-and-visionless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-slams-oppositions-budget-proposals-as-contradictory-and-visionless\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Slams Opposition&#8217;s Budget Proposals as &#8216;Contradictory and Visionless&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><em>By Celestine Chacon | February 6, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PPP General Secretary and Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has strongly criticized the opposition\u2019s budget proposals, describing them as contradictory and lacking a clear vision for the country\u2019s development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made these remarks during a press conference at Freedom House earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo dismissed the statements made by APNU\/AFC parliamentarians during the recently concluded Budget Debates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He particularly took issue with the comments from the leader of the opposition, Aubrey Norton, who had criticized the government for relying too heavily on oil revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo pointed out that while Norton condemned the use of oil money, his own proposals would see a significant increase in oil spending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further criticized the opposition&#8217;s proposal to drastically raise wages and salaries, a move that would cost billions of dollars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo argued that this would leave little room for any other development initiatives, suggesting that the opposition\u2019s proposals lacked cohesion and a long-term strategy for the nation\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo concluded by saying that the opposition&#8217;s budget proposals revealed their absence of a clear vision for the future, highlighting contradictions in their promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> He stressed that the focus on public sector wages would monopolize resources, leaving no room for investment in other critical areas of development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 1.38 trillion-dollar budget, the largest in the country\u2019s history, was passed in the National Assembly yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Celestine Chacon | February 6, 2025 PPP General Secretary and Vice President, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has strongly criticized the opposition\u2019s budget proposals, describing them as contradictory and lacking a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704","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=26704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26705,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26704\/revisions\/26705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}