PPP/C: Will repeal offensive Budget measures when back in office
…as Jagdeo vows to remove VAT from electricity, water, pharmaceuticals
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) says it will repeal all of the draconian and offensive...
Gov’t, Opposition MP’s square off over usage of Sussex Street drug bond
– Team deployed to inspect facility
Following a back-and-forth between Members of Parliament (MP), People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Anil Nandlall and Public Health Minister, Dr...
Roopnarine breaks his silence over Durban Park Project
… lashes out at critics
While utilizing his time in the budget debates earlier today, Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnarine finally broke his silence...
Persaud equates Budget taxation measures to ‘legal larceny’
In her presentation to the 2017 Budget debates, People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Vindiya Persaud posited to the house that...
‘Things did change since Govt came into power…changed for the worse’ – PPP/C...
By Ramona Luthi
Guyanese were promised change, and change they got. This was reiterated many times yesterday by People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament,...
Govt has fallen woefully short on its promise of ‘Good Life’ -FITUG
Below is a statement by the The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG):
FITUG having examined the 2017 Budget has come to...
Minister Sharpe-Patterson drops bombshell on Guyanese
…says “going to private hospitals means you have money, so pay VAT”
…taxing condoms is taxing safe sex – Dr Anthony
By Gary Eleazar
Government has roundly...
2016 will be remembered as the year of taxes – Anthony
By Ramona Luthi
“This year is quite an historic year. It is the year we celebrate our 50th Anniversary as an independent nation, the year...
Region Three has done well – MP Adams
Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) has made significant strides in education, health, public works and agriculture in 2016, according to Government Member of Parliament,...
Harmon accuses PPP/C of using scare tactics to turn citizens against Budget
By Ramona Luthi
Minister of State Joseph Harmon has contended that Guyana will become a better place with the various measures outlined in Budget 2017,...
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