─ $4.4B budgeted this year The government will offer 9,000 more scholarships through the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) programme for Guyanese to attend various universities. A total of $4.4 billion will be set aside this year to offset the initiative. Senior Minister in the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance and […]
More than 900 persons with disabilities (PWDs) will receive skills training in various disciplines this year. This intervention will be funded through the $58.5 billion budgeted by the government to advance the work of the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security in 2025. The training for the PWDs will focus on garment construction, computer […]
With General and Regional Elections approaching, many members of the opposition are clamoring in a fit of desperation to regain relevance once again, in time for E-Day. These sentiments were expressed by Vice President and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive party (PPP), Dr Bharrat Jagdeo. Speaking at his recent party press conference on Thursday […]
– $112.5 million earmarked for Integrity Commission Guyana’s key constitutional bodies, including the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) and Rights Commissions will benefit from a further $18.9 billion investment to support their mandates and operations. Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service, Dr […]
Seventy-eight-year-old pensioner and former Guyana National Service member Berenda Bowman and her husband John Bowman are the latest recipients of a new home, compliments of the Men on Mission. The elated couple received the keys to their new two-bedroom South Ruimveldt abode in a simple ceremony on Saturday. Bowman told the Department of Public Information […]
A further $1.9 billion has been set aside in the 2025 budget for the expansion and upgrading of physical infrastructure of Guyana’s court system. Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and the Public Service, Dr Ashni Singh has explained that a number of courts were rehabilitated between 2021 and […]
A staggering sum of $12.7 billion has been set aside in the 2025 National Budget for the Community Enhancement Workers (CEW) and the National Pathway Workers (NPW) programmes. The budgetary allocation was announced in the National Assembly on Friday evening by Senior Minister within the Office of the President with responsibility for Finance and Public […]
The operations of the Local Democratic Organs (LDOs) and municipalities across the country will be boosted in 2025 with the allocation of $2.8 billion. The money was set aside in the National Budget that was read on Friday by Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and Public Service, Dr […]
Guyana’s agriculture sector is poised to be boosted as $104.6 billion has been allocated in the 2025 National Budget for the industry. This was disclosed by Senior Minister within the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance and Public Service, Dr Ashni Singh on Friday evening. Minister Singh was delivering the budget speech at […]
