Parliament needs to come clean with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Parliament needs to come clean with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This is according to the opposition leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) the Hon. Arnhim Eustace during his budget address on Tuesday.

During his rebuttal to Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves’ budgetary speech on Monday, Mr. Eustace called on parliament to be truthful with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The opposition leader said that Dr. Gonsalves told the people of this country that they will see an 8 percent increase in economic growth for 2011 while telling officials from the International Monetary that the country would have negative growth in 2011.

He also mentioned that the decline in the profitability of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) is appalling. The opposition leader said that while he expected a fall in profit because of the CLICO fiasco, he was struck that the NIS net income has fallen from 27 million in 2008 to a mere 5.6 million in 2010.

The opposition leader said the NIS is on institution that the government should not allow to go under.