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…$93M spent on UNASUR SummitFinance Minister Dr Ashni Singh yesterday, for the second time this year, moved to the National Assembly seeking approval for close to $7B in Supplementary Provisions.The Minister tabled Financial Paper Three for 2010 seeking approval to spend almost $2 billion and Financial Paper Four seeking some $4.9 billion.Among some of the allocations is a request to meet expenditure associated with the hosting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) which was recently concluded. That request was for $93,Authentic Jerseys From China,106,340.Seventy million ($70M) was requested by the Finance Minister on behalf of the Guyana Defence Force to “purchase accommodation items for the force.”For the Guyana Police Force (GPF) there was a request for $30M to meet expenditure associated with increased fuel prices and the intensification of mobile patrols in and around the city.Also for the GPF was a request for $24M to meet expenditure incurred during the ICC 20/20 World Cup Competition for the feeding of ranks inlying.That competition was held in April and May of this year.As it relates to the Amerindian Development Fund there was a request for $198M in addition to an earlier voted provision of $100M.There was also a request on behalf of the Office of the President for $224.6 million to provide security and ICT equipment to the National Intelligence Centre.The Finance Minister requested $147.4M to set up an Educational Television Broadcast Service.The Ministry of Housing and Water will receive in excess of $60M for the provision of water around the country.There were also requests by several ministries under the headline “provision additional inflows”This request was to the tune of several hundred millions, such as $235M for the Finance Ministry, $140M for the Ministry of Education as well as $186M for the Ministry of Education.There is also a $3.7 billion request for the Ministry of Housing and Water for the development in new housing areas and improvement to existing housing areas.One hundred fifty-three days after Guyana’s largest ever ($143B) budget was approved in the National Assembly, the Finance Minister had moved to the House seeking approval for an additional $2.4 billion in Supplementary Provisions.The resort to Financial Supplementary papers has long been criticised.Members of the Opposition have been questioning the validity of the manner in which the monies are used, given that the expenditure, according to them, does not fit the criterion.Section 41 (3) of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act says that the Finance Minister,Air Max Shoes For Sale, who is the sole authority to do so,Wholesale Authentic China Jerseys, may make such a withdrawal,China Jerseys NFL, “when satisfied that an urgent, unavoidable and unforeseen need for expenditure has arisen:-(a) for which no monies have been appropriated or for which the sum appropriated is insufficient;(b) for which monies cannot be reallocated as provided for under this Act; or(c) which cannot be deferred without injury to the public interest, and may approve a Contingencies Fund advance as an expenditure out of the Consolidated Fund by the issuance of a drawing right.”The most recent controversy on the use of the Supplementary Provisions related to a $4B allocation to the Housing Ministry.It was subsequently discovered that the monies were spent long before approval was ever sought.Opposition speakers had called the money a bailout to the struggling Guyana Sugar Corporation when the Ministry had paid it over to purchase land in Diamond, East Bank Demerara,cheap jerseys, but from the details in the 2010 budget, it was evident that no developmental works were scheduled.