Gov’t looking to relocate GRA from unfit headquarters

GRA employees outside the agency’s Camp Street headquarters after a tremor on July 16th. GRA Board Chairman Rawle Lucas confirmed to Stabroek News that cracks developed in the building after this event. (Stabroek News file photo)

The Camp Street building in which the operations of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) are currently housed is not fit for occupation, Minister of Finance Winston Jordan said yesterday, while announcing that government is looking to relocate the office until the structure can be deemed safe.

Jordan at the time was making his contributions to a debate on the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill in the National Assembly.

The minister’s pronouncement comes days after the chairman of GRA Board Rawle Lucas told Stabroek News that the five-storey building was deemed as “sufficiently safe” for continued occupation by experts out of the Ministry