Canada – a major point for illegal drugs
Most of the illegal drugs coming into the country in Barrels from North America are originating in Canada. This was told to THE NEW TODAY...
Ministry of Finance
The Diaspora Package from Congress
Any Grenadians living abroad for a minimum of 7 years are entitled to 100% duty-free concession on their personal effects coming into the island. This...
Clouden: Carriacou needs 25% of CBI funds for rebuilding
Carriacou-born attorney-at-law Anselm Clouden wants the Congress administration on the mainland to allow the sister isle to receive 25% of funds raised through the passport...
The Visa cancellation issue
A high-level U.S official has confirmed to THE NEW TODAY that the State Department had sent a letter via Email to one Ophelia Wells-Cornwall informing...
Opposition leader Emmalin Pierre: 2025 budget may exacerbate national debt
Opposition Leader Emmalin Pierre has criticised the 2025 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, branding it as “troubling” and accused the Congress government of fiscal irresponsibility...
Government seeks public Input on delayed 2025 Budget
A week before the presentation of the highly anticipated Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, the Ministry of Finance has launched a Budget Consultation Portal, inviting...
The Keith Mitchell crackdown on Gilchrist and Lucia Livingston-Andall
Details are beginning to emerge about another dictatorial and highhanded manner in which former Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell attempted to remove two top public...
Congress activates Fiscal Resilience Act Debt Suspension Clause
As of September 6, the Government of Grenada has activated the suspension clause of the Fiscal Resilience Act (FRA), which permits the Finance Minister to...
Call for a revamp of enforcement in Customs
A former top member of the Ministry of Finance has urged the Dickon Mitchell-led Congress government to take steps to address some of the burning...
Technocrats raise concerns
A group of Grenadian technocrats have expressed concerns over what they suspect was a deliberate attempt to exclude them from a meeting this past week...
A bombshell on missing oil and gas files
NNP used to hide top secret state documents away from public officers in a bank vault and not in the government ministry A former high-ranking...
Financial Complex needs massive renovation work
The entire Financial Complex on the Carenage where the Treasury Department is located is in dire need of massive refurbishment work, according to a government...
Controversial issue on the port
A major trucker operating on the St George’s Port is hopping mad that information about new controversial guidelines being contemplated for implementation at the island’s...
Spicemas clears the air on concessions for carnival
Spicemas Corporation has confirmed that there is a functioning policy in place to assist mas bands that want duty-free concessions from the Ministry of Finance...
PM Dickon Mitchell defends freight cap policy
By February 2023, the Ministry of Finance is expected to report on the performance of the decision to cap freight prices at 2019 levels with...
Forecast for 6% economic growth
The Ministry of Finance headed by new Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell is projecting reasonable economic growth for Grenada in 2022. The ministry has presented a...
Economy is rebounding
Signs are emerging that the Grenadian economy is recovering from the impact created by the deadly coronavirus pandemic. The Ministry of Finance has just released...
Government reviews cost of living measures imposed by the former administration
The Ministry of Finance is in the process of reviewing measures that were implemented under the former Keith Mitchell government in December 2021, to ease...
The 25% discount on non-fuel charges on electricity was unsustainable
The Cabinet of Ministers of the two-month old Congress government has discontinued the 25% discount on the non-fuel charges associated with the electricity supplied by...
Government considers capping freight costs to reflect pre-Covid 19 levels
Analysis from the Ministry of Finance indicates that the freight charges on average have increased by over 40%, over seven (7) regions with a maximum...