‘I am not interested in running any parallel treasury’

Winston Jordan

Finance Minister Winston Jordan says he has started moving to have all government revenue transferred into the Consolidated Fund.

Asked about the movement of the revenues from government holding company, the National Industrial commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) and the lotto fund into the Consolidated Fund, Jordan told Stabroek News in an interview on Thursday that he has started moving in this direction. “In general, I have already moved.

I have spoken to the Accountant General on having, for example, all inactive accounts closed and their balances transferred to the Consolidated Fund,” he said, before adding that he has to meet with authorities from the semi-autonomous agencies, such as the