The opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) yesterday launched an outline of its 2020 elections manifesto, with both promises of more jobs and a reduced cost of living and appeals to non-supporters to give its ideas a fair hearing.
The outline, which can be found on the party’s Facebook page, proposes to create 50,000 jobs over five years and reverse several tax measures implemented by the APNU+AFC coalition government. It also proposed to implement several measures that have been the subject of intense public debate, such as cash transfers to citizens from oil revenue, renegotiations of oil and gas contracts, reopening of sugar estates closed by the current government and a resuscitation of the defunct Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.