Dear Editor,
I SHALL be highly obliged if you could provide me the opportunity to share my thoughts on the recent announcements made by President Irfaan Ali during his address to a special parliamentary sitting.
I must say those announcements are welcoming and will be of great benefit to all Guyanese, particularly the $200,000 one-off cash grant to every household.

The $200,000 grant brings great relief to the family and countless others who were affected by the post-COVID-19 inflation and other economic impacts created primarily by global conditions.
They would finally get that TV they needed because the old one was going bad, or the computer and printer combo for the children’s school assignments, or a car repair that would help the taxi or bus driver to get back on the road to feed his family.

I could vividly recall the days when the APNU+AFC was in office, they imposed taxes on essential services, imposed restrictions on the importation of older vehicles, applied VAT to utilities and education, and a range of other essential services that previously didn’t attract tax or were zero rated, and they also took away the children’s $10,000 cash grant, just to name a few.

It is totally disgusting to hear some people saying $200,000 is nothing. If it were $1,000,000, the people telling you that $200,000 is nothing would be telling you that $1,000,000 is nothing.
Most of them saying $200,000 is nothing have never had a poor person’s expenses nor were ever in need in their entire lives, and rest assured they will turn up and quietly collect that same $200,000, while they are encouraging you to reject it.
Yours truly,
Quincy Anderson