Jagdeo slams container tax

Bharrat Jagdeo

Opposition Leader, has said that the $25,000 container tax  that City Hall has implemented is anti-business and he also voiced grave concern at the Bank of America (BOA) withdrawing corresponding banking from Guyana.

At a press conference hosted by his office at Freedom House yesterday, Jagdeo said that the withdrawal “can put the country back into the stone ages.”

The BOA, which provides correspondent banking services for some financial institutions in the Region, including those in Guyana,