“Like all the budgets which preceded this one misinterpretation and deliberate misrepresentations are the order of the day from the government’s critics,Authentic Jerseys Cheap,” said Minister Dr Jennifer Westford. of the opposition parties when the budget debate continued on Tuesday.Minister Westford who has responsibility for the Public Service Ministry asserted that this year’s budget, which amounts to $161.4B,Cheap Jerseys USA, will allow the sectors to which it is allocated to continue implementing projects that will improve the standard of living of citizens. According to her, insinuations such as “elections budgets and claims that the budget has nothing for the ordinary people and that the government will not have the capacity to implement or utilise all of the monies that were allocated into the budget,” have been forthcoming from the opposition.But according to the Minister such utterances have no merit and represent a blatant deviation from the truth.? The minister noted that the ruling People’s Progressive Party has no reason to be presenting an elections budget as is proffered by opposition.She underscored that a proper analysis of the budget presented by the government since 1993 revealed that they were crafted in a manner to ensure that the developmental programmes would progress annually in tandem with planned fiscal improvements.“Nowhere in this budget can they point to any project that has been inserted because of this being an election year. All of the major projects reflected in this budget didn’t just happen this year they can be found in all of our previous budgets at different stages of development.”According to Dr Westford the government has spent millions of dollars every year to prepare current and capital budget documents which are distributed to every Member of Parliament.She further advised that the members of the opposition not only read the documents in isolation every year but rather to cross analyse the various years’ programmes. In fact the Minister noted that “I am convinced that the opposition really doesn’t believe in this election budget theory that they are harping on. If they really believe that an elections budget could have won votes why didn’t they present an elections budget in 1992?” she questioned.In her attempt to deflate the assertion that there is nothing in the budget for the ordinary man,Cheap Jerseys NFL, Westford questioned “who will benefit from the 14 percent increased old age pension and also public assistance. Aren’t they ordinary people? The thousands of workers who will benefit from the increased threshold, aren’t they also ordinary people?”Dr Westford also highlighted that the $10.1B allocated for construction and repairs of roads and bridges,Cheap Adidas Hockey Jerseys, the $171M that will be spent on markets, the $1.3B that will be spent on agricultural diversification,Cheap Jerseys Online, the $178M to be spent on the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, the $88M to be spent on the Leguan airstrip, the $24.3 B to be expended in the education sector and the 90,000 laptops that will be distributed by the government are all intended for ordinary Guyanese people.She warned that the opposition members should not allow themselves to be blinded by political brinkmanship and see the benefits the budget will offer to the nation at large.According to Dr Westford it was after realising that their utterances of an elections budget was not convincing, the opposition then resorted to querying the capacity of the government to expend the money that is provided in the budget.“We on this side of the House just do not speak about capacity. We have been ensuring that we build capacity to provide the enabling environment for the efficient implementation of our developmental programmes…”