High demand in oil, mining sectors kept livestock subsector afloat last year
Though the agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors bore the brunt of the impact of the unprecedented floods last year, some subsectors still managed to...
Oppos. MP casts doubt on govt., private sector’s ability to execute over $200B in...
Opposition Parliamentarian, Amanza Walton-Desir has expressed doubt in the Government of Guyana (GoG) and the local private sector’s ability to execute a mammoth $218B...
Regional, Municipality heads still to get 7% retroactive salary increases for 2021 – Mahipaul...
On November 18, 2021, the Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, announced a 7% across-the-board...
Energy Chamber praises low carbon vision of 2022 budget; mulls reduced subsidies for solar...
While it has expressed great satisfaction with many of the transformational proiects in the PPP/C’s $553B budget, the Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber...
GECOM, Judiciary get highest allocations in $11.7B budget for Constitutional Agencies
The Guyana Elections Commission and the Supreme Court of Judicature have received the highest allocations for 2022 in the $11.7B budget for Constitutional Agencies.
Both...
Opposition still open to providing Govt. with recommendations for 2022 budget -PNCR Chairman
Last week, Aubrey Norton, who leads the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) – the largest support base party in the APNU+AFC bloc – said...
Gov’t plans to spend $88.9M to train, reform 1,400 prisoners in 2022
The Government of Guyana has earmarked a sum of $88.9M to train prison inmates in areas such as anger management, literacy and numeracy, tailoring,...
$561M budgeted for Amerindian Land Titling; 20 villages to benefit in 2022
In National Budget 2022, the Guyana government proposes to massively increase the subvention for the Amerindian Land Titling programme, to allow 20 communities to...
Guyana could earn over US$950 from oil sector this year- Finance Minister
Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh disclosed, via his 2022 budget, that Guyana is expected to earn over US$950M from its...
Increase of Old Age Pension from $25,000 to $28,000 among other Budget 2022 measures
In addition to the wide range of public investment projects and initiatives outlined in the PPP/C Government’s 2022 budget which totals $552.9M, several measures...
