The Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure will be laid in the House of Assembly on Tuesday.This announcement came from Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, who also indicated that the debate setting out the revenue and expenditure for the 2023-2024 financial year will commence next Monday February 20.While delivering remarks at the Barbados Labour Party’s (BLP) St Michael West Central branch meeting at the Lawrence T Gay Memorial School on Sunday, Straughn gave the assurance that the Government will not only be budgeting for improvements to the road infrastructure, but would also be putting resources behind the social services, health, education among other sectors.“We recognize that COVID stopped us from being able to do what we wanted to do with respect to the Youth Advance Corps and our young people. And Minister [of Youth and Sports] Griffith, will be able to complete the accommodations with respect to the building of those dorms so that we can get those young people who would have left school early, didn’t have an opportunity to get any exposure for work or training or anything, so that people could see that we are still investing in your children.“Irrespective of their performance at school, we are still going to be investing in your children to give them a chance to be the best Barbadian citizen they can be,” he said.
