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The more than projected revenue haul for 2009 by the Guyana Revenue Authority does not accurately illustrate resilience and increased spending power of the populace,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, says Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram.He added that the money was derived primarily from the excise tax on fuel.According to Ram, the fact that the returns on the Value Added Tax (VAT) reduced,China Jerseys, though minimally, suggests that the distribution sector did not fare too well in 2009 in the face of the Global Financial Crisis.This leaves many to wonder if the President’s suggestion that the economy had a two per cent growth was accurate, said Ram.This,Jerseys Wholesale, he said, was even more questionable given the fact that he did not support his assertion with any figures.According to Ram,China Jerseys Cheap, when the GRA Commissioner General, Khurshid Sattaur, made his announcement he did not disaggregate his figures. “That would have been very instructive.”Ram explained to this newspaper that the bulk of the increase “appears to have come from increases in excise taxes resulting from the government reinstituting taxes on petroleum as a result of lower world prices.”This,Cheap Jerseys Online, however, is nothing strange in that if the prices on the world market are high then the tax is removed or reduced and if it is low the tax is reinstated.Ram said that if one were to check the half year figures for 2009 there is a $3.7B which was raked as a result of extra excise tax.He explained that the Value Added Tax is an “extremely important barometer of the performance of the economy.”Its decrease, according to Ram, lends further doubt to the President’s suggestion of the two per cent growth in the economy.Ram explained that a great majority of businesses complained bitterly as it relates to sales in the latter half of the year, “and it was only the latter days of the holidays that they saw people at the turnstiles.”Ram posited that the notion of increased taxes and whether it was of greater efficiency is questionable.The Bank of Guyana midyear report for 2009 stated that real economic growth slowed to -1.4 per cent during the first half of 2009, after achieving a 3.8 percent growth in the corresponding period of the previous year.The outturn was on account of the decline in the agriculture and mining and quarrying sectors. Growth was registered in the engineering and construction and services sectors while there was stable performance from the manufacturing sector.It also reported that inflation also fell sharply to 1.3 percent due to lower food and fuel prices.The overall balance of payments recorded a surplus of US$57.3 million on account of a contraction in the current account deficit which more than offset the decline in inflows on the capital account.This was due to lower imports from declining fuel and commodity prices while the latter was due to a decrease in official grants and foreign direct investment.The overall surplus contributed to the accumulation of foreign assets by the Bank of Guyana, which provided an import cover of 3.5 months.All segments of the foreign exchange market, except for the non-bank cambios,Cheap Jerseys 2018, experienced lower levels of transactions on account of declining commodity prices and remittances. Non-bank cambios’ transactions increased to US$60.8 million as a result of their higher buying and lower selling rates for foreign currency notes.The exchange rate remained relatively stable, appreciating by 0.37 percent.The overall financial operations of the public sector, computed on a cash basis, improved on account of a sharp decline in the overall deficit of the Non-Financial Public Enterprises (NFPEs). The central government, according to the Bank of Guyana, recorded a slightly higher surplus despite a significant drop in capital receipts which was offset by an increase in current receipts and lower capital expenditure.The improvement in the overall position of the NFPEs resulted from lower current and capital expenditure which reflected the completion of capital programmes undertaken by Guyana SugarCorporation (GUYSUCO) and Guyana Power and Light (GPL).The stock of domestic and external public debt increased by 14.9 percent and 11.3 percent, respectively from end-June 2008 level with the former attributed to an increase in the issuance of treasury bills to sterilise excess liquidity, while the latter is due to disbursements from the IDB and bilateral credit delivered under the Petrocaribe Initiative.Both domestic and external debt services were lower on account of lower principal payments.Monetary aggregates reflected the impact of the g

A local seafood exporter nabbed by US authorities last month in relation to a 268-kilo cocaine shipment from Guyana to Brooklyn has signaled his intentions to strike a plea deal.US prosecutors are working on a plea deal with the Guyanese fish exporter over 268 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shrimp.Heeralall Sukdeo, whose place of business is Lusignan Pump Road, East Coast Demerara, made another appearance on Friday in an East New York court, where a joint application was made to delay trial.Both the prosecutors and Sukdeo’s defense team want up to August 9th to continue negotiations which could result in the case not having to go to trial.Sukdeo will remain in custody of the US authorities, in the meantime.Sukdeo,Wholesale Jerseys, according to the application, said he understood that federal law gives him the right to have formal charges laid within 30 days of his arrest and a trial 70 days of those charges being lodged. He said that he was not threatened or coerced for his consent.The application was granted by Chief Magistrate Judge Steven Gold.In June,Cheap Football Jerseys, US Federal agents have discovered a new delicacy from Guyana — shrimp coketail.A drug-sniffing dog noticed something fishy about a shipping container that arrived at the Red Hook Terminal, Brooklyn, from Guyana and found 268 kilos of cocaine stuffed inside frozen shrimp, according to a complaint unsealed in the Brooklyn Federal Court.The whale of a catch has an estimated street value of more than US$12 million.The agents secretly removed the coke-filled crustaceans and tailed the container after it cleared customs on June 15, according to U.S. Homeland Security special agent Ryan Varrone.The container was delivered to an unidentified warehouse in Brooklyn where agents spotted Heeralall Sukdeo “together with others … organizing and supervising the unloading” of the shipment,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, the complaint states.Sukdeo,NFL Jerseys China, 59, the owner of Sukdeo and Sons Fishing, a shipping company based in Queens, was arrested, but said he was innocent of any wrongdoing.“Sukdeo stated that he was present only in the vicinity of the truck containing the target shipment because he was curious about its contents,China Jerseys Cheap,” Varrone stated in the complaint.The shipment had originated in Guyana and was addressed to “Randolph Fraser” which is apparently Sukdeo’s alias, an employee told the feds.Sukdeo was ordered held without bail.Defense lawyer Andre Travieso said Sukdeo has never been arrested before.“I’m pretty confident that when all the facts come out, this was just a huge mistake,” Travieso told the Daily News,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, insisting that his client did not order the drug-crusted shrimp.