THE lofty promises announced by the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) during its recent campaign launch give no thought to sustainability and could possibly bring the country close to bankruptcy.

This was according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who was, at the time, giving commentary on his weekly show, Issues in the News.
Nandlall stated that there was no holding back on the barrage of promises made by that party, which he noted has no track record of fulfilling promises.
Highlighting some of the lofty promises made during its campaign launch, he stated that they promised $1 million for every Guyanese, a 35 per cent increase in public servant wages and moving the income tax threshold to $400,000, among other things.

“With these few promises that I have just written down here, within one year, in that one year, within six months of government, we are bankrupt, or very close to bankruptcy… There is not an iota of thought being given to sustainability, to affordability, to the financial and fiscal ability to deliver these promises, nothing like that,” the attorney-general said.
Against this backdrop, he noted that this is the very party that, when it was given the chance, took all the benefits away from the people of the country.
“They took the subsidies away from GPL and GWI, and they dropped the 15 per cent VAT instead. They took away cash grant from the children, took it away, and here it is, they want to tell you

that they’re going to tell you that they’re going to give the children $120,000. So these are con men at work,” Nandlall iterated.
To this end, he noted that more of these types of big promises will be seen throughout the campaign.
“There must be a reason why, and the reason why, which has history behind it is that it has never fulfilled its promises, and it doesn’t care that it has never done; it has no track record of fulfilling promises, and it doesn’t care to build one now. So, they promise anything that is attractive,” he added.