March 6, 2025
Kwasi Thompson, the Opposition’s finance spokesman, during the mid-year budget debate in the House of Assembly on March 5, 2025. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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Thompson raises concern over ongoing bed shortage at Rand Memorial Hospital
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Opposition: Gov’t ‘making mockery’ of fiscal guards
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Gov’t targets $1.88bn debt slash over four-year cycle
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‘Bypass the bureaucracy’ to drive stopover visitor growth
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Opposition: Does Hutchison port exit also involve DevCo?
The Opposition yesterday pressed the Government on whether CK Hutchison Holdings’ plans to sell its interests in the Freeport Container Port and Freeport Harbour Company also include its real estate holdings.
Parties clash over claims of busting deficit
The Prime Minister and Opposition’s finance spokesman yesterday clashed over assertions the Davis administration has never “bust” its deficit and other Budget targets and will not do so in 2024-2025.
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