The Dems intend to hold on to their heavily-touted, but controversial, programmes if the electorate returns them to office. Schoolchildren will continue to ride free on Transport Board buses, constituency councils will survive and the national summer camp programme will be retained.
All three initiatives were introduced by the then David Thompson-led administration’s first Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals on July 7, 2008.
Based on Government’s next Budget, which will be debated in the House of Assembly from today, the three will all survive if the Democratic Labour Party wins the next General Election.
According to the 2018-2019 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the Ministry of Education will pay the Transport Board $3 million “for the subsidising of bus fares for schoolchildren”. (SC)
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