Sugar industry may hold the key to Guyana’s search for cheap energy- Associate Professor
With its current configuration, Associate Professor at Medgar Evers College, Dr. Terrence Blackman, firmly asserts that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is economically unsustainable....
Ministry cannot account to AG for millions spent on undelivered drugs
Under the leadership of former Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, the nation’s Auditor General, Deodat Sharma discovered that there were alarming instances of...
Guyanese deserve to see action taken to halt abuse of national purse -Goolsarran
While most in the financial field may be somewhat justified in having feelings of elation for the fact that there has been annual audits...
AG report raps former Govt for accepting gifts without documenting
The Auditor-General 2019 report has unearthed several cases where Government Ministries and agencies would have received millions of dollars’ worth of gifts from various...
Billions spent by Guyana Lotteries Commission between 2014 to 2019 remain unaudited
Following his review of how the APNU+AFC regime handled the nation's finances for the fiscal year ended December 2019, Auditor General, Deodat Sharma was...
Oil sector received $125.8Billion in tax exemptions last year –AG Report
During the year 2019, Auditor General, Deodat Sharma found that the Oil and Gas Sector received tax exemptions totaling $125.849 billion through the Guyana...
IDB has approved record US$21.6B to help Latin America, Caribbean fight COVID-19
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group has mounted a historic effort in 2020 to assist its 26 member countries in Latin America and the...
Most Caribbean countries to end 2020 with deepest GDP contraction –IDB
For most Caribbean countries, the COVID-19 pandemic will translate into the deepest single-year contraction of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on record in 2020...
IDB to mobilize US$1B to help Latin American, Caribbean countries acquire COVID-19 vaccines
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced that it will mobilize US$1 billion to help Latin American and Caribbean countries acquire and distribute COVID-19...
Guyana’s COVID-19 response bill to climb beyond US$1B
Taking into consideration the fact that the Irfaan Ali-led government estimated a budget of US$29 million for the implementation of its COVID-19 response plan,...
