With the Briceño administration tightening its public service budget, one big question is emerging: where is the money being redirected? Prime Minister John Briceño says some of those savings will help expand the government’s grocery bag program over the next five months. Millions more are also being earmarked for area representatives to help constituents with housing needs. But as government trims spending in one area, it is putting more resources into social assistance.
Prime Minister John Briceño
Prime Minister John Briceño
“The grocery bag programs is aimed at families who already have difficulties putting food on the table. For the next five months through the end of the fiscal year, we will spend another three million dollars to double the grocery bag program to reach more families to provide food. We will also make three million dollars more for housing assistance through the area representatives through the remainder of the fiscal year. The additional housing assistance will be made available through the area representatives who hear directly from their constituents who needs some small assistance to repair their home, paint their home, Christmas the come, buy their marly, including the UDP, you all will be getting this money, member for Mesopotamia and Queen Square, you all will get this money too so you could help. We don’t look at red or blue or green when it comes to helping our citizens, unlike you all on that side, we think different.”
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