“I now have to spend 30 minutes from Delph Street to Hadfield Street, my new office,” complained AFC Member of Parliament (MP), Khemraj Ramjattan after criticizing the government’s focus on building out critical public infrastructure such as roads and bridges.
“The wellbeing of Guyanese against infrastructure work needs to be attended to,” Ramjattan said, aligning his views with AFC leader Nigel Hughes who complained a few days ago that “we can’t eat roads and bridges”.
Ramjattan’s contradictory positions were taken during his budget 2025 presentation today in the National Assembly.The PPP Government presented the $1.382 trillion budget for 2025 just over a week ago, and has enjoyed widespread support from civil society, the business community and the sporting fraternity.
Like budget 2024, the budget focuses heavily on investment in public infrastructure which includes the building of new schools, hospitals and farm-to-market roads.
$209.3 billion have been allocated in the 2025 budget to dramatically enhance Guyana’s roads and bridges infrastructure, changing and modernising the physical landscape of the coastal and hinterland areas across the country.
However, the opposition APNU and AFC have both complained about the lack of infrastructure across the country, while complaining about the investment being made in these same areas.
Similarly, the parties have called for oil revenues to be saved for future generations, while at the same time calling for direct cash transfers of oil revenues to citizens.
These contradictory positions have attracted criticism from General Secretary of the PPP, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo who has described those opposition parties as “duplicitous”.
