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And Finance Minister Eugene Cox will deliver a statement on a recent trip to Paris to international financial watchdogs the Organisation for Economic Development and Opportunity.
Bermuda is fighting to stay off an OECD hitlist of "harmful tax jurisdictions.'' The supplementary estimates, tabled after the official Budget statement in February, is set to generate a heated debate on Government's control of the Island's purse strings.
A total of two supplementary estimates have been tabled in the House of Assembly over the last few weeks.
The first -- for nearly $4.2 million -- includes a total of $2.5 million to allow Works and Engineering to develop water treatment plants at Prospect and Port Royal.
It also includes an extra $85,000 for Cabinet Office, to be used to towards the cost of a major Civil Service review to be carried out by British bureaucrats.
The second -- for $5.89 million -- allots an extra $5 million for capital development in the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Parks and more than $895,000 for salaries and professional services in other Ministries and departments.
Shadow Finance Minister Grant Gibbons has already questioned the need to come back to the House for more cash so soon after the Budget for the year was unveiled.
Also on the agenda is another supplementary estimate dating from the financial year 1997/98 -- extra cash spent by the former UBP Government.
It totals more than $20.8 million, including an $8.8 million cash injection for the building of CedarBridge Academy.
