….tells Port Kaituma supporters PPP/C will reverse taxes

PRIME Ministerial candidate of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), Brigadier Mark Phillips, has endorsed the party’s promise to reintroduce bonuses for the disciplined services and reverse taxation on fuel and other mining equipment.
Brigadier Phillips, during an address at a public meeting in Port Kaituma, Region One, urged residents to throw their support behind the party, as it will ensure there is development for all.

“This is a border region, I served 36 years in the military, I’ve been defending Guyana keeping Guyana safe for 36 years and I tell you I respect the soldiers and the police who are deployed and are working here, when you vote for the PPP/C you are also voting to improve the defence and security of Guyana,” Phillips underscored.
Voting for the PPP/C, Phillips added, will ensure that the Guyana Police Force [GPF] and other disciplined forces are modernised and equipped to better serve and protect the people of Guyana.

“We voting to make the Guyana Defence Force better, I know they are hurting and I tell them when they vote on the 2nd March, you voting to return the bonus to the police, to the prison, to the firemen and to the defence forces and I know many of you will benefit from that because many of you have families working in the defence forces,” he stated.

Phillips related that the PPP/C has a five-year plan which will return Port Kaituma and the entire region to the “glorious state” it once was before 2015, when the current government took office. The PPP/C, he stated, will start by reversing the taxation on fuel and mining equipment to ensure that residents in Region One are spending less and earning more.
“We have to get you back in mining… between 1992-2015 this place has developed into a powerhouse now I’m hearing that nothing much as happening again, the PPP/C will remove the tax on fuel to get you back in mining, the PPP/C will remove the tax on mining equipment,” Phillips noted.

Brigadier Phillips also told supporters that it is because of the PPP/C’s plan to restore democracy and development in Guyana that motivated him to come out of retirement and support the party.

“I only retired three years ago and I have decided to come out of retirement to assist Irfaan Ali who will be the next president of Guyana, comrades I think hard and long and then I decided to support the PPP/C because the PPP/C has a plan for Guyana…It is not a plan for a decade or a decade of development, we aren’t put nothing on the air, we put everything on paper in simple English language that you could read, we have a plan and that is why I’m supporting the PPP/C,” Phillips told those gathered.

He urged PPP/C supporters not to be brainwashed by promises and propaganda that may be said on the opposing party’s campaign trail, “We are the party to be reckoned with…don’t be distracted, support the PPP/C, we want Region One to be won by the PPP/C, so we winning the general and the regional elections because come March 2, the storm will be over,” Phillips noted.