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More roads, keeping electricity cost low among $44.44B in funds requested - Linden, Lethem, Kwakwani, Port Kaituma, Mabaruma, Matthew’s Ridge, Mahdia to benefit
By Tamica Garnett ANOTHER $6.6 billion to provide additional resources for electricity arrears to the Guyana Power & Light (GPL), $1 billion for op-
erational expenses at the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and $18 billion for the upgrading of roads and bridges are among the expenditures in a $44.44 billion supplementary budget
request made by government. Financial Paper 3 of 2022 was laid before the National Assembly on Wednesday by Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance, Dr Ashni Singh at the Arthur Chung
Community Development
Conference Centre (ACCC), Liliendaal. Financial Paper 2 of 2022, a schedule of contingency fund advances on current and capital expenditures totalling $2.904 billion for the period 15
August to 29 November, was also tabled. Section 220 of the Constitution and Section 41 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act (FMAA) gives the minister of finance
the “sole authority” to release monies from the Contingency Fund which should not be larger than two per cent of the annual budget from the last fiscal year. FULL STORY ON PAGE 3
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- Over $165M transferred to Albouystown, West La Penitence - Leopold Street, Albouystown youths meet officials on skills training - APNU+AFC desperate, will be exposed by right-thinking Guyanese - President Ali
Linden landslide
- Two homes destroyed - Man feared buried later found unharmed - Good Samaritan act potentially goes wrong - Resident leaps to assist three elderly women
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Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister, Kwame McCoy, Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar and contractors from Albouystown and West La Penitence (DPI photo)
Hire purchase law passed to protect consumers, sellers
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- creates a level playing field for all
Birth certificates bought under APNU+AFC gov’t still unaccounted for 12
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