Pandemic continues to send gov’t revenues plummeting
By Orville Williams
With the Covid-19 pandemic reducing government revenue by at least 40 percent, officials from the Ministry of Finance have warned that there are challenging days to come, until the country’s economic fortunes take a turn for the better.
According to this week’s post-Cabinet report, many of the government’s borrowing sources have been “fully exhausted”, while the moratoria granted to the state by local banks will soon come to an end.
The shutdown of the travel and tourism industries for several months undoubtedly played the biggest role in this economic downturn, leaving the administration scrambling to gather resources from all avenues.