Georgetown: “There is no government in the world be it Moscow or Washington, London or New Delhi, Kinston or Bridgetown or even Georgetown that does not move people when it takes over.” This is according to Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman, who this evening defended his Government’s actions of removing persons from positions they held under the former administration.
According to Trotman, the APNU+AFC Government like any other government now taking office after having won an election, is within its right to change persons in key positions as this is done all over the world in developed and developing countries worldwide.
“We reject this notion, that to touch anyone is to cleanse or to flush. It is a standard feature in any change, is any capital of the world,” Trotman explained as he urged persons to go back into history and check for clarifications.
The Minister who told the House that his Government believes in creating equal opportunities for all added that, his Government has realized that it is not wise to throw out projects started by the former administration and which are ongoing as this would do more harm than good for the country.
Meanwhile, addressing the concerns of the opposition on the number of days for scrutinizing and examining the budget estimates, the Minister, who is also the former Speaker of the House, reminded that no one was being muzzled as his administration believes in transparency and accountability.
He explained that history has shown that in the past the APNU and the AFC while in the opposition were given three days to consider and approve the estimates, as he showed the schedule of the last budget debate in which the estimates were considered and approved in three days, “there is no fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh day, for 20 years, save and except for 2011 through 2014 the opposition had three days only to consider the estimates.
Minister Trotman further explained that it was a motion moved by now Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge and seconded by Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan in the last Parliament that saw the days being adjusted from three to five days.
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