The Working People’ s Alliance (WPA) yesterday said that it wholeheartedly supports the recommendation by Elder Eusi Kwayana that the government’ s recent promised $100,000 cash grant to each person over 18 years be taken to the National Assembly for full debate and passage into law.
“Indeed, the WPA’s cash transfer proposal, in the form of the Buxton Proposal, calls for such payments to be sanctioned by legislation. Like elder Kwayana, we feel that a policy of this magnitude should not be left to the whims and fancies of the executive branch. Second, given the range of opinion on this policy, the proper democratic approach is to subject it to the widest debate and scrutiny by the elected representatives of the people. Further, Guyana’s constitution gives ultimate control of the national purse strings to the legislative branch”, the WPA said in a statement.
