Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo is insisting that the annual cost of the travelling for the entire Government is on average $200M. He said that it is not accounted for at the Office of the President but rather with the Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance.
According to Jagdeo, there is one travel vote for the entire government.
The President also responded to Leader of the Alliance for Change, Raphael Trotman, who had told media operatives that the cost of the President’s overseas travel over the past 2 ½ years was nearing $1B.
He said that as the issue of his trips was the source of queries, he would reluctantly let it be known that the one trip for the Leader of the Opposition, Robert Corbin, when he was medevaced to the US, “is equivalent to three years of my travel.”
The President added also that when he travels overseas he travels with the smallest delegation, namely his Aide de Camp, Ambassador Elizabeth Harper and the Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
This is nothing like the previous administration where routine trips would see a delegation of some 15 persons.
Jagdeo said that when he travels overseas he does not use expensive hotels. “I could because am eligible.” And he has made this clear to his staff that they should not either.
Well this such clear the air to what the AFC is saying, and the people will see that fuh cut Corbin go-dee is more than what they say that the president trips are.........
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't Trotman criticize the cost of Corbin's medivac? It all makes sense, the AFC criticise President Jagdeo's trips though it brings in much needed resources, financially and otherwise, is mainly to enhance this countries standing in the global arena, in the areas of climate change, ethnic tolerance etc.
ReplyDeleteThese people would never give it rest, they always with there false accusations about the government is too damn trivial at times...its not like the have or will ever do what government has done for us...Trotman don’t need verification from Corbin if they sleeping in bed together...they are dirty alike when it comes to there administration...
ReplyDeletelook at the cost of Corbin ailment, and the amount of persons in delegation, when they were in power, now they blabbering there mouths on the trips that the government takes just for the stability of our country...the president had to take his precious time just to give them proof...these people would send anybody in a mood they are likely to have.....they have no discipline or etiquette towards people time
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