THIS is tantamount to PNC ransom and if the PPP/C gives in to the PNC (now APNU) demands there will be no PPP/C at the end of it all. When one hears a statement such as this: “Devote more urgent attention and resources to the plight of the unemployed, the youth of Guyana and the depressed communities and areas.”
Unemployed youths! PNC and their cohorts are strictly talking of black youths only and to hell with other ethnic youths of Guyana.
Plight of the unemployed! One cringes on the very thought of those who hang out under Demico and around Big Market on a daily/nightly basis robbing the unsuspecting.
Depressed communities? Should PPP/C give in to this then all PNC strong holds will be deemed to be depressed communities.
Government must not be held to PNC ransom and do what it must do for all people of Guyana and if that is not good enough for PNC political gluts then let them say no confidence and march right back to the polls.
Most Guyanese are just fed up with PNC and their bull crap.
The statement said that the main demands of the Opposition are:
* Reduction in the Value-Added Tax rate
* Reduction in the Berbice River Bridge toll rate
* Increase in the salaries of public servants
* Effectively re-establishing the functioning of Public Service Collective Bargaining
* Cease the blatant abuse of the mechanism of Contract Employees in the Public Service
* Increase in the subvention to the University of Guyana
* Increase in the retirement age of public servants
* Guarantee the independence of the constitutional offices – Parliament Office; GECOM and the Service Commissions – by their removal as Budget Agencies under the Office of the President and ensure that they receive their subventions directly from the Consolidated Fund
* Restructure GUYSUCO and GPL to make them into viable corporations
* Restructure NICIL to bring its financial assets into the Consolidated Fund
* Restructure GINA and NCN to make them into responsible national institutions
* Establish the long delayed constitutionally mandated Public Procurement Commission as a matter of urgency
* Establish appropriate arrangements for the governance of key projects and entities, ranging from NICIL, the Amaila Falls Hydro power project and the NIS, with a view to greater transparency in decision-making, eliminating corruption and making them more responsive to public wishes
* Devote more urgent attention and resources to the plight of the unemployed, the youth of Guyana and the depressed communities and areas.