Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 20:37 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday assailed government’s 2019 National Budget moments after Finance Minister, Winston Jordan delivered a GYD$300 billion package of revenues and expenditures. ‘We can’t support this budget, not in its current form,” Jagdeo said, adding that the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had expected government ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 18:52 by Denis Chabrol Cigarette smoking in Guyana will next year cost cost more as Finance Minister, Winston Jordan announced on Monday a raft of taxes on the tobacco product. He told the 65-seat National Assembly, in presenting the 2019 National Budget, that the “new regime for taxing tobacco” would include a specific Excise ...

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan on Monday announced increases in the thresholds of property tax returns for individuals and companies as part of an ongoing tax reform plan. The 2019 budget is GYD$300.7 billion, 12.6 percent increase over 2018. Real Gross Domestic Product in 2018 is projected to be 4.6 percent compared to an expected 3.4 percent for this year. Inflation ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 18:35 by Denis Chabrol Finance Minister, Winston Jordan says government employees earning  a minimum salary of GYD$60,000 would take home GYD$50,400 in back pay, even as he confirmed tax free back-pay for all categories of government employees. Those increases would not include teachers who have already been granted increases following protracted negotiations with ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 12:05 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is preparing for domestic negotiations among several stakeholders to address several aspects of forestry governance before licences are issued, now that a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) with the European Union has been signed, authorities said. The VPA seeks to improve the application of forest laws, strengthen forest governance ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 10:59 by Denis Chabrol The American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) Guyana and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA-Caribbean) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to equip Guyanese with the right set of skills for the emerging oil and gas sector, officials said. The two-year agreement, which was signed by AMCHAM Guyana ...

Last Updated on Monday, 26 November 2018, 8:26 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is being urged to conduct high-tech integrated mapping to locate and value existing and new mineral resources for effective planning and future investment, a senior official of a geospatial survey company says. “One of our objectives in providing the tools to allow informed governance is to give a ...