Tewarie: Govt clueless

Tewarie said Finance Minister Colm Imbert in his speech had said nothing about earning fresh revenues. He said a real plan could have averted current economic woes. Tewarie accused the Governent of having wasted its chances to build a confidence among the people, and accused them of being not interested in good governance. He anticipated a debt-to-GDP ratio worsening to 100 percent over five years. “The State sector in this country is at their wits end and public servants are chugging along without any kind of leadership whatsoever. “The whole country is depressed because of lack of direction, absence of priorities and lack of inspiration.”

He accused the Government of much sleightof- hand and “reasonable- sounding talk calculated to deceive”. Tewarie accused the Government of twice ignoring the Opposition’s warning that their National Budget targets were unattainable in terms of revenue and expenditure. He hit Imbert for recently boasting of “savings” made in the form of unspent monies but of ignoring the human cost to this non-expenditure.