Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh, today presented Supplementary Financial Paper Number 1 of 2026, totalling $54.9 billion to the National Assembly.
The Minister is seeking Parliamentary consideration and approval for development support as government’s projects and programmes continue countrywide during the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s (PPP/C’s) newly elected term in office.
Under this Financial Paper, approval for Supplementary provisions is being sought for the period ending December 31, 2026, with $17.5 billion for the housing sector to cater for an accelerated work programme.
In the PPP/C’s 2026 Manifesto, the Party outlined its plan for affordable homes and stronger communities through measures such as expanding its housing programme, the construction of 40,000 new homes, working to ensure it eliminates the backlog of applications in all regions and fast-tracking all pending housing applications. To facilitate this, $159.1 billion was allocated to the sector in Budget 2026.
The National Assembly is also being requested to consider a supplementary provision of $19.1 billion under the Office of the Prime Minister to cater for additional resources including toward government’s Gas-to-Energy Project which is expected to reduce electricity cost to citizens by half when it comes on stream. In addition, $8.5 billion is being sought under the Ministry of Public Works including $6 billion that caters for miscellaneous roads and drainage and $2.5 billion for hinterland roads as government continues to improve connectivity across all regions of the country.
Additionally, $8.3 billion is being requested for consideration under the Ministry of Agriculture, including $807.5 million for the Guyana Rice Development Board, $3 billion for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) and $4.5 billion for the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to support the agriculture sector.
Under the Ministry of Public Utilities and Aviation, a further $600 million is being requested for the provision of additional resources to facilitate maintenance of coastal airstrips and $496.3 million to support water interventions including water filling stations. Under the Ministry of Home Affairs, an additional $60 million is being requested to facilitate its accelerated work programme for the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU).
Government has, over the last five years and continuing in its new term, ramped up investments to strengthen, expand, and rehabilitate the country’s drainage and irrigation (D&I) infrastructure, promote growth in agriculture, improve access to world-class healthcare, expand housing areas and road networks across the country, modernise and expand the education sector to ensure persons have free access to education from nursery to the tertiary level, modernise and diversify the electricity sector, digitise processes for access to goods and services across all sectors, and generally improve the quality of life being enjoyed by citizens. The sums requested in the financial paper supports these intensified investments.
The request comes six months after the House passed the government’s $1.558 Trillion National Budget.
