Phillips to table Supplementary Estimates today

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

FINANCE and Public Service Minister Dr Peter Phillips will table the second Supplementary Estimates for this financial year when Parliament meets at 2:00 pm today.

Gordon House yesterday advised that the tabling of the Estimates, which had been promised early, would be among the agenda items for today. Earlier this month, Dr Phillips, at a Jamaica House News Briefing, said the country's fiscal position was "disastrously off track". He further forecasted a $10-billion "fiscal gap" for the current financial year which ends in March.

Meanwhile, Gordon House yesterday said minister of transport, works and housing Dr Omar Davies is to make a statement on the US$400-million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme and the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP). He is also expected to table a Ministry Paper on JEEP.

During the "Questions and Answers to Questions" segment of the House, minister of water, land, environment and climate change Robert Pickersgill is to respond to questions from the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party's Member of Parliament JC Hutchinson. Minister of agriculture and fisheries Roger Clarke is also slated to respond to questions posed by Hutchinson as well.