Comments on: Full Statement: 2011/12 Budget

By: In General

In General — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:19:28 +0000

Reading through the actual report, it gives a comparison on this budget and that of 1997/98. These numbers seem staggeringly different. I wonder what the 1997/98 amounts would be today allowing for inflation.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:56:21 +0000

Is there a public forum for questions on the budget?

I see that the government plans to cut travel 15% (down to 5.4 Million$), but immediately above there is a 186% increase in Transportation (from 1.6 Million to 6.6 Million$) which leads to a net increase of 3.4 Million$ in expenses that seem to both be related to government’s travel. Can someone please explain the difference between the two.

By: 32n64w

32n64w — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:54:52 +0000

The PLP are so hung up (insecure) on comparing themselves to the UBP they actually dedicated 2.5 pages in the budget statement to a comparison of expenditures from 1997/98 to 2010/11 titled “What The Government Has Done For you Lately”. The premise being the UBP spent $94m in their last full year on the job compared to the PLP’s $304m last year.

They conveniently forgot to add the comparative debt or revenue increase comparisons, nor address the effects of inflation over 13 years.