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Honorary doctorates

On Sunday, the University of Guyana (UG), in keeping with its tradition of conferring honorary degrees on outstanding individuals, announced the names of recipients of honorary doctorates for this year’s convocation exercises.

Under the FMAA framework, the Ministry of Finance is responsible for all payments of monies to the public

Dear Editor,  I believe it will be useful to remind ourselves of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act (FMAA) which is one of the framework laws that guide the process for the “Payment Authority” (see Section 31), “Payments from the Consolidated Funds” (see Section 52) and the “Accounting Procedures” (see Section 54) associated with all payments from the government coffers.

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