Senators outline hopes, concerns ahead of Budget

Econ­o­mist and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Dr Mar­lene Attzs is hop­ing to see a strength­ened re­la­tion­ship be­tween this coun­try and Venezuela through so­lid­i­fied gas deals be­ing iden­ti­fied in this year’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez buried the hatch­et dur­ing their vis­it to the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York last month. Per­sad-Bisses­sar was in­vit­ed to Venezuela and ex­tend­ed an in­vi­ta­tion to Ro­dríguez, with ex­perts hop­ing that the gas deal be­tween the two coun­tries can fi­nal­ly get off the ground.

Speak­ing out­side the Red House yes­ter­day, Attzs said her hope was for the Gov­ern­ment to go a notch above the typ­i­cal rhetoric.