House Speaker Raphael Trotman has conceded that thus far the national Assembly has made some ridiculous decisions and passed some “foolish” bills, state radio NCN reported on Tuesday.
Trotman according to the radio report, believes parliamentarians also need to be cognizant of the language used in the house.
“Parliament have made some ridiculous decisions, passed some foolish laws ” Trotman said.
He noted also agreed that the cuts to the 2012 national budget had far-reaching consequences on Guyanese.
“I think the nation felt the pain, the effects of the cuts, the fighting and for me recognizing that there were real people on the other end of these cuts it was quite painful ” Trotman added.
Trotman said to sit and reminisce on how the budget cuts affected Guyanese is “painful”.
The House speaker’s party- the Alliance For Change and the APNU used their one-seat majority in the parliament earlier this year to shave some GY$20B off the national budget, plunging a number of Amerindian and other projects in doubt and placed hundreds on the breadline