Finance Minister says unsure of UG ‘emergency’ funding needs

Minister of Finance Winston Jordan has said that he is unsure of the ‘emergency’ funding the University of Guyana needs to reputedly prevent a collapse of the  institution.

‘I don’t know what they mean by emergency because the budget only came out recently. So I don’t know what emergency they are speaking about.

So until the nature of the request is known I can’t make any comment,” the Finance Minister said in an invited comment yesterday. A conference of local and diaspora stakeholders of the University of Guyana (UG) last weekend called on the government to