In keeping with tradition, the Minister of Finance, Peggy Serame, was on the first Monday of February this year, in Parliament to present the nation’s financial year budget. After listening to her, we naturally have different views on the budget and how she went about allocating funds to the various Government departments.
What I like most about the budget is that the Minister just like her predecessors, continues to allocate a large amount of money to education. The caveat that one wishes to provide though, is that there is no visible attempt to ensure that while we send the bulk of the money to education, we reap good returns from such spending in the form of consistently high education standards and results.
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