The government has paid out nearly $140,000 in legal fees to assist the straw vendors who were incarcerated in the United States last year, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham revealed.<\/p>\n
According to Ingraham, who opened debate on the mid-year budget Monday in the House of Assembly, a little over $139,000 was spent on their legal fees.<\/p>\n
As previously reported the government has allocated $18.1 million to the Department of Finance to pay outstanding bills to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) incurred by various government ministries and departments.<\/p>\n
The prime minister said another $416,000 is going to assist indigent persons, $203,000 for the national lunch program, and $3.1 million to assist the needy.<\/p>\n
Ingraham added that $595,000 will go towards paying air traffic controllers and $4 million will go to the Public Hospitals Authority. Ingraham also said that the government paid out $2.2 million to disengaged CLICO workers.<\/p>\n
An additional $5.1 million will go to ZNS for the payment of separation packages.<\/p>\n
Ingraham reported that relative to the corresponding period in fiscal year 2009\/2010, revenue collection in the first six months of 2010\/2011 was down by approximately $50 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Ingraham opened the mid-year budget debate declaring that the government paid nearly $140,000 in legal fees for the straw vendors, has allocated $18 million to pay BEC bills and has millions more in expenses but is down by $50 million in revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[98,40],"class_list":["post-6758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-financial","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}