{"id":27476,"date":"2025-11-26T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27476"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:32:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:32:52","slug":"budget-2026-preparations-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/budget-2026-preparations-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026 preparations in full swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Preparations for Budget 2026 are well advanced, as the PPP\/C government moves quickly to deliver on the commitments it made during the 2025 General and Regional elections campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to Senior Minister in the Office of the President with Responsibility for Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"459\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ashni-singh-new-dpi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11817\" style=\"width:899px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ashni-singh-new-dpi-1.jpg 459w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ashni-singh-new-dpi-1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/ashni-singh-new-dpi-1-126x157.jpg 126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NaAsia-Budget-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister says that Government Ministries and Agencies have already submitted their budget proposals which outline the programmes that they expect to deliver in the new year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He adds that the Finance Ministry is currently meeting with Government departments, Private Sector Organizations, and other stakeholders as part of the preparation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NaAsia-Budget-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in light of concerns about declining global oil prices, Dr. Singh noted that the Government has built a resilient economic framework that can withstand fluctuations in commodity markets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Budget 2026 is expected to be presented to Parliament early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for Budget 2026 are well advanced, as the PPP\/C government moves quickly to deliver on the commitments it made during the 2025 General and Regional elections campaign. This is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,366,363,350,367,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-one-guyana","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476","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=27476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27479,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27476\/revisions\/27479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}