Government has strategically placed huge support for dialysis treatment in Budget 2022, recognising the limited spending power of patients to secure treatment. Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, when he rose in support of the fiscal plan in the National Assembly, Thursday stated, “I didn’t have to get out of this. It was a one-off […]
Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo has reaffirmed that any new Production Sharing Agreements (PSA) that Guyana enters into will obtain better terms than what was secured by the APNU+AFC Government with the Stabroek Block. The Vice President’s statement comes on the heels of a new oil discovery by CGX Energy and Frontera Energy Group in […]
Amerindian youths can look forward to a mammoth $1.5 billion from government, through the revived Community Service Officers (CSO) programme. This is the affirmation of Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai, M.P, when she stood staunch on Thursday, in defence of the $552.9 billion budget presented by Senior Minister in the Office of the President […]
No single budget in the world can solve all of a country’s ills in one cycle, but Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat posits that through the PPP/C’s successive budget, the administration will continue to work assiduously to improve citizens’ standard of living. The budget themed, ‘Steadfast against all challenges, resolute in building our One […]
Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Pauline Sukhai fiercely defended this year’s national budget, telling the National Assembly that all Amerindians across the regions stand to benefit from the slew of supportive measures it contains. Contributing to the budget debate on Thursday, Minister Sukhai said the budget breathes life into all Amerindian communities. “Under the Amerindian Development […]
Minister of Natural Resources, Vickram Bharrat M.P, said government is building back sugar because it is benefitting all Guyanese. He chided the opposition APNU+AFC on its claims that financial support is only given to the industry, because only one ethnicity is employed there. “…but that is a figment of their imagination” the minister asserted Thursday, […]
Today, Senior Officers within the Ministry of Education visited the home of the late Shereeda Persaud who was a Grade 11 student of the Bush Lot Secondary School. The 16 year-old died following a vehicular accident yesterday in Mahaica. Our officers extended heartfelt condolences and words of comfort to the family of Shereeda, who was […]
The government has devised a new prosecutors’ programme to strengthen and balance the scales of Guyana’s justice system. To ensure victims of criminal offences benefit from effective representation, the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Attorney General Chambers has collaborated with the University of Guyana (UG) to launch the new ‘Certificate in Advocacy and Evidence […]
“Altruistic, realistic and futuristic” were words used to describe the $96.1 billion allocated to the Ministry of Public Works to propel Guyana’s infrastructural development. Of that amount, $76.7 billion has been earmarked for roads and bridges. Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill, sought to paint a vivid picture to the APNU+AFC opposition Members of […]
The shortage of essential drugs in Mahaica-Berbice (Region Five) is something of the past since the PPP/C Government took office in August 2020. Government Member of Parliament, and Director-General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Vishwa Mahadeo made this assertion, during his defence of the 2022 national budget on Wednesday. He was also addressing claims by […]