Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo during a year-end press conference yesterday said that the government was successful in introducing measures which abated high living costs locally.
His response came following questions posed by a reporter from Guyana Chronicle on how effective the government was in tackling the high costs of living locally, and his views on the series of articles carried by the Stabroek News on the lamentations of citizens on the subject.
Jagdeo made this statement as General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP) on Thursday at Freedom House where he held his year-end press briefing. He also said that out of the $781.9 billion fiscal plan for 2023, $5 billion had been allocated towards additional cost of living measures.