GECOM, Judiciary get highest allocations in $11.7B budget for Constitutional Agencies

  The Guyana Elections Commission and the Supreme Court of Judicature have received the highest allocations for 2022 in the $11.7B budget for Constitutional Agencies. Both...

APNU+AFC is a failure in and out of govt; “You can’t criticize us” –...

  According to Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Charles Ramson, APNU+AFC Members of Parliament have no merit upon which they can stand to criticize...

Increase of Old Age Pension from $25,000 to $28,000 among other Budget 2022 measures

In addition to the wide range of public investment projects and initiatives outlined in the PPP/C Government’s 2022 budget which totals $552.9M, several measures...

Gov’t sets aside sums to reconstruct burnt North Ruimveldt, North West Secondary schools

  The sum of $6.6 billion has been allocated for the the construction, rehabilitation, extension, and maintenance of educational facilities in Guyana. The fund will also...

$2B approved for construction of call centres, other co-investment projects

  The People’s Progressive Party Civic Administration has made significant strides in honouring its commitment to provide 50,000 jobs to Guyanese, with an allocation of...

Budget 2022: $20.8B allocated for Gas-to-Energy Project, solar farms

With the aim of advancing the transition to cleaner sources of energy, the PPP/C Government has set aside $29.4B in the 2022 budget for...

Boats, engines and ATVs used by CPGs went missing after “disbandment” – House hears

Some of the transportation implements once used by the Community Policing Groups (CPGs) before its alleged disbandment by the former APNU+AFC government, went missing. This...

Ministry completes design, layout of new housing areas to be opened on 2,000 acres...

  The government has completed the acquisition of some 2,000 acres of land east of the Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Housing Scheme, which will...

Gov’t plans to spend $88.9M to train, reform 1,400 prisoners in 2022

The Government of Guyana has earmarked a sum of $88.9M to train prison inmates in areas such as anger management, literacy and numeracy, tailoring,...

$561M budgeted for Amerindian Land Titling; 20 villages to benefit in 2022

  In National Budget 2022, the Guyana government proposes to massively increase the subvention for the Amerindian Land Titling programme, to allow 20 communities to...

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