New gov’t didn’t become fully functional until passage of budget – Jagdeo

With this week marking the first 100 days of the new PPP/C government, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said the new administration was hamstrung from hitting the ground running due to the absence of a budget.

At a press conference at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre yesterday, the VP told reporters that the country seemed to be at a standstill up until the PPP/C took over the administration some five months after the March 2nd elections. “It seems like five years we just stood still as a country,” he said, while describing the former APNU+AFC administration’s tenure.