Tag: Budget 2017
Jagdeo wants to counter Jordan with “alternative budget” during consultations
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has indicated that he will once again boycott the annual budget consultations with the government if...
$24.9B Finance Ministry budget passed; FIU gets $145.1M
The $24.9B Ministry of Finance budget was today (Wednesday December 21, 2016) approved in the Committee of Supply of the...
$64M to be spent for extension of E-Gov network to Timehri; $2.31B approved for Public Telecommunications
All the programmes under the Ministry of Public Telecommunications totaling some $2.31B for current and Capital expenditure was this afternoon...
Over $5B approved for Foreign Affairs Ministry; Opposition questions massive increase in payments
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge defending his budgetary allocations under current and capital expenditures in the Committee of Supply...
Increased remuneration for contract workers attributed to VAT; several regional budgets approved
The Consideration of Estimates for the respective regions, which fall under the purview of the Ministry of Communities, continued today...
Forum to improve visibility of RDCs to come on stream in 2017- Minister Bulkan
Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan during a press conference today at the Parliament Buildings restated his ministry’s commitment to respecting...
Minister Bulkan “mamagizing” the House;should be sent to Privileges Committee says Teixeira
A strong call was this evening made in the National Assembly for Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan to be sent...
$500M for Homestretch Development Inc. to clear debts incurred under D’Urban Park Project
The controversial D’Urban Park Project once again has drawn the attention of the National Assembly with the Opposition expressing outrage...
Allocation for Linden Electricity Company increased; Patterson comes under fire for spate of blackouts
The increase in allocation for the Linden Electricity Company for 2017 has aroused concerns by the Parliamentary Opposition This resulted...
Opposition raises concern over $109M allocated for legal fees; Budget for Legal Affairs approved
Havoc broke loose in the National Assembly this afternoon as the Opposition and Government sides clashed over the allocation of...
