{"id":27605,"date":"2025-12-17T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=27605"},"modified":"2025-12-17T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T13:41:50","slug":"govt-doing-everything-possible-to-keep-cost-of-living-contained-dr-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/govt-doing-everything-possible-to-keep-cost-of-living-contained-dr-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t doing everything possible to keep cost of living contained- Dr. Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Questions pertaining to inflation were recently addressed by Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, as he assured Guyanese that the government has been and will continue to do everything possible to keep cost of living contained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview on the Starting Point Podcast, the Minister noted that Guyana, like the rest of the world, is affected by global price increases, but also reflected on the measures that were rolled out by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-1024x655.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-1024x655.png 1024w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-768x492.png 768w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-1536x983.png 1536w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-2048x1311.png 2048w, https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mof-155x99.png 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Minister of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh (Photo: Ashni Singh via Facebook) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jarryl-Inflation-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This, Dr. Singh noted, allowed the government to protect ordinary Guyanese from the worst increases in imported goods used every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jarryl-Inflation-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Singh also noted that more Guyanese are working than ever before. This is no accident, but rather the result of careful planning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Jarryl-Inflation-3.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Questions pertaining to inflation were recently addressed by Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh, as he assured Guyanese that the government has been and will continue to do everything possible to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,365,366,363,350,1],"tags":[480,482,481,412,405],"class_list":["post-27605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-human-development","category-local-development","category-national-transformation","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-development","tag-economic-growth","tag-ministry-of-finance","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27605","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=27605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27609,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27605\/revisions\/27609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}