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The government and opposition traded accusations over who lacked the political will to address the nation’s most pressing needs, as the House of Representatives debated the Standing Finance Committee’s report during Tuesday evening’s sitting.
Former education minister and St Ann’s East MP Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly said the new administration’s mid-year budget review gave the illusion of caring about children but offered little in terms of real financial commitment. Of the $3.14 billion in supplementary funding, she said she found no clear allocation for school violence initiatives or critical youth programmes.
“In the allocation in the report that we're discussing, I saw nothing… for the completion of youth camps, for expanding MiLAT and MYPART programmes and continuing the CCC. I saw none of that,” she said, adding that she was “expecting that those programmes are fully funded.”
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