Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, has highlighted the transformative impact of government measures, describing a wave of policies that have returned billions to the Guyanese people.
According to Nandlall, Guyanese are living better and improved lives due to several government policies.
“People are eating, people are traveling, people are recreating in a manner that they have never done before,” the Attorney General said during his weekly ‘Issues in the News’ programme.
With general and regional elections set to take place later this year, Nandlall does not believe that opposition politicians will be successful against the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).
Attorney General, Anil Nandlall
“The opposition politicians have a very uphill task because, in the face of this avalanche of success, this avalanche of policies, from which people are benefitting from every walk of life, they have to start doing politics.
“How do you do that when they don’t have anything of their own to which they can point?” Nandlall said.
He further stated that through direct cash transfers and reduced taxes, Guyanese citizens are experiencing unprecedented improvements in their quality of life.
Some of the government’s measures include:
Increasing the income tax threshold from $100,000 to $130,000.
Raising the old age pension from $36,000 to $41,000.
Increasing public assistance from $19,000 to $22,000.
The government’s ‘Because We Care’ cash grant also saw an increase this year from $40,000 to $50,000, with an additional $5,000 uniform allowance. The part-time job initiative is also creating employment opportunities for citizens, while tertiary education is now tuition-free.
Nandlall emphasised that these policies have led to visible economic growth across the country.
“Those are some of the measures that we have implemented that have returned to the Guyanese people billions of dollars that would have been in the treasury in the form of taxes, revenue, or income. We have given [this] to the people, either through direct cash transfers or indirectly by reducing taxes.
“…and that accounts for what you see across this country—the explosion in spending, the number of motor vehicles, the fancy clothes you see people wearing,” Nandlall said.
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