The PPP says cuts made to the budgetary allocations for the Government Information Agency (GINA), the National Communica-tions Network (NCN) and the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) will lead to job loss as well as increased blackouts and/or increased electricity tariffs.
Under the government’s proposed budget, NCN and GINA were slated to receive $81,337,000 and $135,858,000 respectively under Office of the President (OP) expenditures while GPL was to benefit from $10.2 billion as part of the Office of the Prime Minister’s Electrification Programme.
However, during Thursday’s consideration of the estimates, the combined opposition
