LIKE APNU, the AFC wants to ensure that every citizen has equitable access to the resources of the state and the national decision-making processes, in keeping with the Constitution of Guyana. It has an ambitious target of making 28 changes within its first year in office, including the reduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) to 12 %, as well as lowering other taxes, which ultimately will result in greater spending power for citizens.
Within the first month of entering government, this party wants to re-engage the offer from the UK to reform the police force, and allow the USA’s Drug Enforcement Agency to set up an operation in Guyana.
Guyana goes to the poll on Monday November 28, 2011, to elect a government that will run the country over the next five years.
First of all, I have to say that there is no such thing as APNU. Most Guyanese knew, for many years now, that the PNC wanted a name change; so they got it through fooling those who oppose the PPP/C.
The Guyanese people are much smarter than that to know APNU is PNC, and its chosen leader, Granger, was head honcho of Burnham’s GDF.
Most Guyanese by now know that Granger said he and the PNC will not apologise for any atrocities committed during the PNC’s 28 years of misrule, wherein people were killed trying to follow ballot boxes.
Secondly, there is this little party calling itself the AFC, which will drop VAT from 16% to 12 %;
will increase public servants’ wages by 20%, but refuses to say where it will generate income to replace what it is dishing out.
AFC will not tell the Guyanese people how much it paid United States political guru Dick Morris for his services last election, when he promised an AFC win.
The AFC will take money from Britain to reform the security sector in Guyana, but will not say what it will give Britain in return.
Perhaps the AFC will give the Brits full access somewhere along the Guyana/Venezuela border so that the Brits can carry out live-round ammunition training.
Maybe AFC should ask Arnold the Governator of California why live round ammunition training was banned in California.
The AFC’s intention is to sell Guyana at any and all cost, with little regard for environmental issues.
AFC will give access to the United States of America to set up a DEA office to fight illicit drugs.
Maybe the AFC should ask Colombia how the fight against illicit drugs is progressing after more than 30 years co-operating with the United States.
Maybe AFC should ask the United States of America, the richest and most powerful country in the world, why it cannot protect its very own borders to stem the illegal drug flows into that country.
If this is all the PNC and AFC have, then the Lord will have to help all Guyanese living and breathing at home, should any one of these political entities gain power and control of Guyana.