The Guyana Rice Produc-ers Association (RPA) says that while the budget had some constraints since Guyana is still a developing state with limited resources, the country is on track and cannot be derailed any longer. “Every man, woman and child has been provided for in incrementally larger budgets each year.”
A release from General Secretary Dharamkumar Seeraj praised the government for the presentation of the largest budget ever in the National Assembly saying that each annual national budget since the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic had come into office, “has brought a new dynamism to the developmental paradigm of Guyana which has been accelerating at an unprecedented rate. Stabilised macro-economic fundamentals and sustained growth indices have been consistently achieved over the past eight years, even as many countries are facing recession on a global scale.”
It said that the struggles for viability in the agricultural sector, with the RPA’s obvious emphasis on the
