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spills and rising sea levels. guyana is making choices which will have global impact. will they be wise ones? it s republic day in georgetown, guyana s capital. party time for the country s 800,000 people. the ministry of natural resources is on the road. i want to hear you make some noise. the stage is set here for transformational change, a resource driven economic boom that will spread unprecedented wealth through the generations. in past decades, guyana s dominant commodity was gold, found deep in the forested interior. to get to the gold mines, you need to take a pretty rough and ready track. it gives you some idea how remote these mines are. i mean, the truth is that there are gold deposits all around here, but finding them is one thing. you ve then got to clear away the forest. you ve got to dig a track to make them accessible. frankly, digging for gold around here is a pretty difficult operation. the alphonso family own a dozen mining concessions. they dig for t ....
First three at this point are done or continuing and ongoing, the fee study is of course why im here today. A little bit of discussion about the fund balance status is important for todays presentation as we know, dbi has been over collecting for a number of years, and under spending relative to revenue and expenditures, causing over the course of the 56 year, the fund balance to rise so what you see here today is a financial snapshot table from 2009, to 2015 numbers. 2015s numbers are currently projected, you see the revenue has risen from 49. 5 million figure in 09 which is the following of the start of the recession, to 228 million, which is an increase. Started taking up after 2009 and has grown since. Total expenditures were equivalent to 2009s revenues and went down as a result of recession, in 2009 and 11, and started to pick back up in 2012, where we are now, an additional 21 million, and 2016, projected at 23 million. In regard to the balance, 2010, and the next five years, is ....