Tuesday, April 23, 2013

$1.3 BILLION BUDGET

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

HISTORICAL NUMBERS:
Budget 2009 $1.211.355.609
Budget 2010 $1.210.911.400
Budget 2011 $1.337.807.300
Budget 2012 $1.457.851.100
Budget 2013 $1.327.405.100
Interesting!
What are these numbers reflecting?

borada said...

What are they reflecting anonymous??

you cant just stop mid way in a point...but if you ask me...

I'd say random numbers put on paper

Anonymous said...

A Country Going Backwards - AGAIN!!??

Anonymous said...

This tells me that there is a budget correction taking place. I am also, of the view that St.Luica is not a billion dollar economy- simply the numbers just don’t add up.
The Net difference in the budget 2009 and 2010 …is, approximately 400 less.
In 2011 net difference 1.268 million more
In 2012 the net difference jumped to 120 million ---more than 2011…… but look what is happen now……
2013 net difference is 130 million lower ..from last year
So what is the lesson here…
----there is a pattern of decline as far back as 2009….and that---the 2012 budget allocation was a RISKY stretch that did not deliver on the promises of better days.
Now……the following is a known fact……. In 2012, Growth rate -0.6%; inflation 4.2% and debt /GDP of 80.2%. The overall deficit/GDP -12.9%; unemployment 20.7% (not taking into account the underemployment rate)..
So these could very well be some of the facts at play here!
Which means as we stand today Saint Lucia’s BUDGET allocation is lower by 10 million to that of 2011
And a difference of 130 million from last year- this is serious stuff.
This reflects the follow ---One, the budget allocation is under severe pressure and over stretched.
Two- the forecast amounts are not being met, and that large sums of revenue, donation, and expect funds from other sources did not come through.
And this is where, the question of WHY-WHAT –and HOW this happens-must be asked by citizens and answered by parliamentarians during the debate.
Mr. PM and minister for finance please explain?
In the private sector, if i had to report and explain these numbers to a aboard of directors or share holders, I would have to resign.

Anonymous said...

What did your last billion dollar budget bring us???? Absolutely nothing to talk about. Now you talking again about an other billion dollar budget which in two years has cost the country in excess of 2 billion.

What a waste!!

Anonymous said...

In 9 previous years this same cast of characters presented annual budgets.
All they did was borrow recklessly and spend like madmen.
Now this is just another carbom copy of incompetence by Kenny and Phillip.

The days spent in the House talking about the budget is a waste. It is all smoke and mirrors.
If you look t what was said in the budget last year you will see it is the same amalgam of obsfucation, lies and promises by a snake oil salesman.

An utter waste of time.

Anonymous said...

u all u w psssss must go mad i will bring 2 all u at LA TOCK DRY----COCONUTS. BOG FOOOOOOOO.

Anonymous said...

Pointless debating figures without knowledge of the PM's plans, priorities and sectoral allocations. The nation awaits ...

Anonymous said...

Very good point -

Anonymous said...

NTN's coverage of the Throne Speech was a lesson in overkill. What a waste of manpower and state resources! Did we really need 6 anchors to cover this event?

Anonymous said...

This Administration as in previous manifestations is all about cover up, smoke and mirrors, talk, talk, talk, obsfucation, trivialities and a complete lack of transparancy and accountability.

Combine it with our low information voters (even those with degrees) and you have had the recipe for economic and social disaster which is now St. Lucia.

Anonymous said...

The National Television Network had six anchors to cover the Throne speech but viewers did not get anything from them that the GG did not say substantially and more effectively in both languages.

Anonymous said...

Ti Chas may, but just may, be able to gather a better set of advisors around him.

They might be able to create a strategic plan and a related plan of action for radical change for economic transformation, based on technological change and incorporation of technology in products and services with a focused export orientation.

However, extrapolating from the Air Jamaica experience, as a guide to the future, there is not much there in terms of BUSINESS TURNAROUND knowledge and ability, to inspire much confidence.

After all, as an officer in the Air Jamaica saga, that, like the severally hyped marketing ventures under his watch as tourism minister, were financial disasters.

Air Jamaica crashed! OPM, he seems to know, like the beloved Messiah DK, how to waste that, with flair.

Anonymous said...

No meaningful financial analysis is evident with the children playing, as if with wooden blocks with numbers carved into them above.

Armchair Anonymous said...

If a lay person lies to the government - it is called a felony ...
If the government lies to their public - it is called politics!!

Anonymous said...

And if you have revolving convoys of jackasses and country-bookies baying and braying "Mr. Speaker", "Mr. Speaker" and not much else as MPs, worse yet.

Anonymous said...

NTN had six anchors to cover a Throne Speech whilst most news networks - the world over - are cutting costs and increasing visibility through convergent media platforms. Who knew that the same TV anchor could also speak to a radio audience and maintain a live Twitter feed at the same time?! Do better.

Anonymous said...

Our childlike behaviour prevents us from seeing the forest for the trees.

The most important thing affecting us would be the DETAILS in the provisions and proposals in the next BUDGET -- not all the hoopla surrounding it.

Anybody talking their USUAL POLITICAL CRAP based on smoke and partisan bias is totally and ABSOLUTELY USELESS to us -- regardless of societal status.

So they can pack their usual crap back it up where it came from.

Those that know better are not fooled by all this theatre.

AS USUAL, the so-called Throne Speech is nothing more than the usual ceremonial/colonial crap.

Our greater --- not the total, mind you --- reality is the budget itself.

Quit fooling yourself and falling for the entrenched and established political game-playing and manipulation.

Colonial crap is crap and political theatre is even much more dysfunctional, especially when the actors are all local.

Anonymous said...

people complain about having "x" number of anchors covering the session . . . can they enlighten me as to how much it cost the nation in salaries/other areas? Do you have that info?

Curious minds need to know.

Anonymous said...

Oh, you mean how many of those covering the event were paid consultants? Ask the minister with responsibility for public information and broadcasting, he knows best.

Anonymous said...

Any initiative to raise revenue must be attended by initiatives to decrease the unemployment rate in the island. If the strategy is to increase taxes, it becomes apparent that a viable workforce will produce equally viable dividens for the national coffers.
The old people have taught us that it is not how much you make, but how you spend it that will determine the fiscal health of the nation. It is in the seductive business of spending the people's money that ministries of finace are proved. Can we find the ways of good stewardship that leave the nation solvent at the end of the fiscal year? Or will bobol and pwafawance leave us in the dark with no oil in the national lamp?