Day: January 18, 2011

 Georgetown – The Government has budgeted $345 million dollars of the $14 billion allocated for the health sector , for training activities. The money will be used for 250 professional nurses being trained and 140 clinical and technical staff, while over 280 students in various health disciplines are currently in training.

Georgetown- "Crime is a poverty issue, and nobody seems to care about the unemployment figure, even the Minister of Finance in his budget speech failed to talk about it", the words of Chartered Accountant and Economist Christopher Ram on the issue of security and economy. He explained that if you examine the National Insurance Scheme statistics, there are now few people in employment compared to the last decade. Ram said that he is not sure where the tomorrow Guyana is as alluded to by the Finance Minister during his budget speech.

Waterloo Street, Georgetown- For the first time ever in Guyana’s history the personal tax rate is higher than the Corporative tax. This is according to Economist Christopher Ram speaking to CaribbeanTrakker today on the mega budget unveiled yesterday.

Opposition Leader Dr keith Rowley has said the government’s plan purchase of Air Jamaica will be the recreation of a problem that has already been solved.
Rowley, speaking at a town meeting in Sangre Grande last night, said for years BWIA had been a drain on this country’s treasury.
He said this problem was rectified with the restructuring of BWIA into Caribbean Airlines.
Rowley said Caribbean Airlines has been financially viable for the past four years but this is now in jeopardy with the proposed merger of Air Jamaica.

 Georgetown – Long serving party activist, Mrs. Joan Baveghems, has been extracted from the Top Up List of the PNCR/1G List of Candidates for the 2006 General and Regional Elections, to fill the vacancy in the National Assembly created by the death of the late, Mr. Winston Murray.