$161M paid by govt to international bodies in `98
In 1998 the government spent $161 million of taxpayers' money on contributions to international organisations. The Auditor General's report into the Public Accounts of Guyana ending December 1998 stated that CARICOM received $77 million; the CARICOM Regional Negotiating Machinery $23 million; the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation $12.2 million; the Group of 77 Secretariat $8.5 million; the UNDP $2 million; the Commonwealth Secretariat $6.5 million; the United Nations $5.8 million; the Caribbean Export Development Agency $5.4 million; the Organisation of American States $2.81 million; and others $11.7 million.
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