{"id":27326,"date":"2025-10-29T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27326"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:54:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:54:46","slug":"preparations-for-budget-2026-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/preparations-for-budget-2026-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations for Budget 2026 in full swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Preparations for Budget 2026 are ongoing, with the Government consulting various stakeholders on measures they recommend be included in the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among those stakeholders is the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA), which has recommendations of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During an interview with the National Communications Network, GMSA President, Rafeek Khan, spoke of some of the measures the organization would like to see in the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jarryl-GMSA-Budget-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"523\" data-id=\"27331\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rafeek-Khan-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rafeek-Khan-3.jpg 798w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rafeek-Khan-3-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rafeek-Khan-3-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Rafeek-Khan-3-155x102.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has already indicated that an early budget will be presented next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be first budget to be presented to the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Parliament which will convene next week, at the Arthur Chung Conference Center, Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for Budget 2026 are ongoing, with the Government consulting various stakeholders on measures they recommend be included in the budget. Among those stakeholders is the Guyana Manufacturing and Services&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27332,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27326\/revisions\/27332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}