This is the first Budget of the Granger Administration, the first for the Eleventh Parliament and the first for Mr. Winston Jordan, perhaps the unlikeliest Finance Minister ever in post-Independence Guyana. A sound economist and technician, Mr. Jordan was plucked out of semi-retirement and appointed to the post when everyone thought former Finance Minister Carl Greenidge would be a shoo-in.
Not that Mr. Jordan is not equipped to do a good job: in fact his training, temperament, style and experience in dealing with the National Budget equip him to be an outstanding Minister. Mr. Jordan holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Warwick and received training in Budgeting from Penn State and Harvard Universities in the USA. He has spent most of his professional life in the service of the Government of Guyana, at State Planning and in the Ministry of Finance as Budget Director.
