Allocations in the 2019 Budget will ensure pay and continued jobs for all workers inside and outside of government, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo says.
“This is, as have been described by some of my colleagues, a peoples’ budget. It helps to move Guyana even by a little bit along the road to the good life…and for me, it is a confidence budget, every single dollar from the $300.7 billion budget, that will be spent on building our country, on our people, promoting their welfare, providing security for them, defending all rights and protecting all sovereignty, build among our people, confidence in their government, this APNU+AFC government,” the Prime Minister said during his budget presentation on Friday.
“The 2019 budget is the biggest budget ever; 300.7B is a lot of money, it’s nuff bread. This $300.7B national purse will ensure that all persons in the public service get an improved salary, the increase is based on a progressive model; those with lower salaries get a bigger increase. These include the vast majority of employees in government ministries, government departments and offices, teachers and doctors and nurses, policemen and soldiers, coast guards and so on,” he added.
