PHILIPSBURG – Hurricane Irma has destroyed the points of departure that underpinned the 2017 budget,” Minister of Finance Richard Gibson Sr. said in a central committee meeting of Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. The minister referred to article 25 of the kingdom law financial supervision that allows for diverging from the budget rules in case of “damages caused by extraordinary events.”
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