The Alliance For Change (AFC) is to meet with President Donald Ramotar tomorrow to further discuss issues related to the national budget and is optimistic that the two parties would be able to reach a compromise on issues such as the reduction in VAT and increases in public sector wages.
“We still have hope,” said Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan, speaking at a press conference yesterday held at the Sidewalk Cafe. “We are saying that we would like to negotiate with [President Ramotar] the decrease of the VAT, so that all the workers and consumers of Guyana could benefit,” he said. Ramjattan would be engaging the President on behalf of the AFC tomorrow.
He said that this was a call made by a majority of the Guyanese and which was in the campaign manifestos of the political parties including the PPP. “So we in the AFC as part of our list of priorities have
