Richard Naidu
10 July, 2021, 2:00 pm
Attorney General and Minister for Economy Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum speaking at the 2019-2020 National Budget Consultation in Lautoka. Picture: REINAL CHAND/FILE
We’re back to the feverish annual lead-up to the delivery of the national budget.
Most of us have other things on our minds – specifically how we will survive COVID-19 with a health system in collapse, escalating virus numbers and no idea about when things will improve.
Our political leaders appear sporadically (from whatever planet they have decided they will inhabit during the crisis) to lecture us on why the spread of the virus is our fault.