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People’s Progressive Party Member of Parliament and former Government Minister, Dr. Jennifer Westford wants all right thinking Guyanese “to reject this apology of a budget”. She made that declaration during her arguments against Budget 2017. Westford, who is currently facing multi million dollar fraud charges in the courts, told the National Assembly that the coalition […]
Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan rose on the third day of the 2017 Budget Debate and like the rest of his government colleagues, he offered support of the budget. “This budget is the best of the three budgets so far, it is transformative in nature and structure, the progressive tax rate it introduces, puts more […]
The government has declared as false, a report in Tuesday’s Kaieteur News that a major foreign currency crisis is looming in the country. Minister of Finance Winston Jordan and Governor of the Bank of Guyana Dr. Gobind Ganga have both debunked the report. “There is no shortage of foreign exchange in Guyana, the reserves at […]
Minister of State, Joseph Harmon, joined other Government Members in supporting the 2017 national budget, congratulating the Finance Minister and his team for their “comprehensive plans”. According to Harmon “the budget is demonstrative of the strength of the government to take hard decisions to build the nation”. He stated that the complaints by the Opposition Party […]
As the Budget 2017 debate continued on Tuesday, Member after Member on the Opposition side of the house continued their calls for the Coalition government to remove the value added tax that will now be added to electricity bills that go over $10,000 per month and water bills that go over $1500 per month. Chief Whip […]
Following months of consultations all across Guyana, the Ministry of Communities, Department of Housing, has made a decision for the age at which someone could apply for a house lot in Guyana to now be 18 years old. The announcement was made on Tuesday as Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Valerie Patterson offered her […]
Member of Parliament for the Opposition, People’s Progressive Party and former Education Minister, Priya Manickchand on Monday told the National Assembly that she cannot recall ever coming across a budget in her lifetime that has received so much pushback from the society. “I cannot recall another budget that receive this much criticism and worry and […]
President David Granger, on Friday, welcomed His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales, familiarly known as Prince Harry, at the Ministry of the Presidency. The Prince is representing his grandmother, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II on a Royal Tour of the Caribbean, which kicked off two weeks ago in Antigua and Barbuda. Prime Minister Moses […]
Some of the new tax measures outlined in Budget 2017 have already attracted much criticism from sections of society, and based on this, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo believes that government should withdraw or amend the $250B budget. Jagdeo expressed this view on Friday during a press conference held at the office of the Leader of […]
With the scorching midday sun beaming down, Britain’s Prince Harry arrived in Guyana at the Eugene Correia Airport to a military salute by the Guyana Defence Force with its band playing the British and Guyana National Anthems. He was greeted on arrival by Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge and British High Commissioner to Guyana, Greg Quinn. […]
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