Austerity drive mode on


Maintaining the balance

A review of development projects, fewer overseas work trips, cheaper hotels and flights as well as restrictions on formal event gatherings at local top-notch hotels.

These are only some of the measures that the government is implementing in what it calls an austerity drive to “optimise” government spending.

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