Business Review

Introduction Today’s column resumes the review of the 2011 budgetary allocations to the principal ministries of government.

Introduction Last year when the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry published its annual report for 2009 Business Page interrupted its series on the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation.

Today’s column resumes the review of the 2011 budgetary allocations to the principal ministries of government.

An appendix to the budget speech includes some very useful indications about the health of the nation.

Introduction The Budget debate is over and the spending is now in full flow.

Guyana has improved marginally in the World Bank/ International Finance Corporation publication called Doing Business 2011 publication.

Today I continue the discussion on the Guyana Stock Exchange and what we might do to make it work.

Introduction We have not heard much from or about it recently.

As promised, this week’s column looks at the importance of tax rates in the overall scheme of tax policy in any country.

Before going into a couple of matters arising out of the 2011 Budget let us clear up a few points.

2010 has turned out as a bumper year for some of Guyana’s leading businesses.

The road from Oslo, Norway to Cancun, Mexico has been proving to be a rather rocky one for Guyana’s President Jagdeo.

Introduction It is the time of the year when requests for donations to business houses – including from my own experience, professional firms – increase from a trickle to a deluge.

Introduction During the past week Mr Leon Rockliffe, attorney-at-law, has written two letters on developments affecting the Deeds Registry, arguably the most important depository of business information in Guyana, the regulator for businesses and companies, and the authority for a number of critical functions regarding real property.

Mark Wilson with Patrice Bowen, Anthony Rogers Caribbean Business for CSEC Principles of Business (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Introduction Business Page joins in paying tribute to Winston Murray, economist, attorney-at-law and politician who offered this country a unique blend of experience, expertise, capacity for research, hard work and patience, all reinforced by unusual humility, integrity and respect for others.

Introduction Business Page of October 31 had referred to statements both by President Jagdeo and Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh that the Value-Added Tax and the Excise Tax introduced in 2007 would have been revenue neutral.

Introduction Sometimes around now, sometimes later, the press and the public are excited when the report of the Audit Office on the accounts of the ministries, departments and regions is tabled in the National Assembly.

Introduction Last week’s column addressed President Jagdeo’s astonishing, unfounded and uninformed statement that VAT was no burden and therefore in no need of revision.

Introduction Almost invariably in discussing recent mid-year reports which the Minister is required to present to the National Assembly under Section 67(1) of the Fiscal Management and Accountability (FM&A) Act 2003, I have made two broad prefatory comments.