And while Minister Bernard is settling into his position as Minister of Health, he'll have to go to the House of Representatives to ask for yet another supplementary budget after only a few months in office. While pandemics aren't cheap, there have been reports of blown budgets and mis-spent monies by the previous minister. We asked the PM if Chebat's spending was a problem for the ministry.
Reporter
"Did Chebat leave the ministry broke?"
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"No, Chebat did not leave the ministry broke, it's a matter of what was necessary to do at that time, when you need more testing kits, when you need more medicines to fight the COVID, in your budget you are no approved the amount of monies to buy the medicine, then you have to do those things, so Chebat did not leave the ministry broke."
Courtney Menzies:
"So will you be going to the House for the supplementary budget?"
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"Well we have to if we want to pay it, that's the law."
