Dear Editor,
The news article `Ali banking on experience to win polls, deliver 50,000-jobs promise’ (SN online, 07th April 2019) in which the PPP Presidential Candidate promises 50,000 jobs creation speaks volumes of how a PPP controlled by Bharrat Jagdeo is deluding themselves.
The creation of 50,000 jobs is an unrealistic proposition as it would require inward investment in each targeted sector of over $100B (US$500m) to $500B (US$2,500m) to become a reality with the wages bill being some $42B (US$210m) per year alone.
Clearly, Irfaan Ali is not the right person to be the PPP Presidential Candidate as making deluded false promises is not the way forwards as you need to build trust with the electorate to win the next General Election which I do not envision the PPP doing.
If, as expected, Lenox Shuman’s Liberty and Justice Party makes serious inroads into the Amerindian voting base then the next General Election may be more of a direct contest for political power by Indians (who traditionally vote for the PPP) and Africans (who traditionally vote for the PNC) with neither side having an outright majority.
Back to the subject at hand, where is Irfaan Ali getting over US$500m in inward investment for his job creation programme?
Yours faithfully,
Sean Ori
