Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo believes government will return to the National Assembly to request hundreds of millions of dollars more to write-off debts to contractors owed by Homestretch Development Inc (HDI) for the D’Urban Park Development Project. Already, government has expended some $450M from April 2016, and will spend a further $500M in 2017 on D’Urban Park, which was shrouded ...

Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green will once again serve as Mayor for one year from March 2017 after winning by default in an election which saw Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan withdrawing his candidacy for mayorship. Duncan had come out to be critical of the Mayor’s actions in office, even calling for a public debate between himself and Mayor Chase-Green before the ...

Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo is claiming victimisation by the state’s revenue collecting agency after property tax letters were recently served to five PPP parliamentarians during the 2017 budget debate season. Jagdeo said the MPs served letters included Joseph Hamilton, Indra Chanderpal, Dr Frank Anthony, and Bishop Juan Edghill. The Opposition Leader was convinced the government was using the agency to ...

A question raised in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly by the political opposition for Minister of State Joseph Harmon to provide a list of all current government scholarship awardees has revealed a padded list of persons close to the David Granger administration granted scholarships to the tune of millions of dollars. Junior Ministers of Education and Public Infrastructure, ...

New revelations surrounding the D’Urban Park Development Project and its building-company, Homestretch Development Inc, were finally revealed in the National Assembly last evening when Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson explained to the Supply Committee the $500M budgeted in 2017 to pay-off the company’s debts. The debate on the D’Urban Park project has consumed the public eye since a motion brought by ...

After some amount of dodging, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams told the Supply Committee of the National Assembly that a 2017 budgeted sum of $19.7M is for the purchase of a vehicle to be used by himself. The Attorney General was, at the time, responding to questions raised by Opposition MP Anil Nandlall who questioned what type ...

As Guyana and Guyanese await the benefits floated around by prospects of the upcoming oil and gas sector, Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has warned that contrary to popular belief, not everyone in oil-producing countries are part of those massive wealth-earning sectors. Trotman was at the time responding to questions in the Supply Committee of the National Assembly posed by ...

An $80M figure allocated for the Office of the Prime Minister with an unnamed budgetary specification was identified by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo as monies reserved for the Office of the Commissioner of Information, the Department of Governance, as well as the constitutional reform process. Of the monies budgeted, PM Nagamootoo told the Committee of Supply as budget 2017 questions ...

The Citizenship Ministry, according to subject minister Winston Felix, is currently engaged in a computerisation of national birth certificates. Minister Felix told the Committee of Supply of the National Assembly today that out of $194M budgeted for the computerisation project, some $3M has been spent on computerising years 1987-1997. Meanwhile, the remaining $191M will be used for the computerisation of ...

An increase of $100M in monies allocated for contracted employees under policy and administration at the Ministry of the Presidency in budget 2017 was put under the microscope today in the Committee of Supply by the Opposition MP Juan Edghill. “There was a budgetary shortfall which is now being properly addressed,” Minister Harmon responded to Edghill’s question in the Committee ...