All eyes now on APNU+AFC 100 days agenda

Having clinched the general elections and now in the process of forming the government, all eyes will be on APNU+AFC’s pledges for the first 100 days.

In their manifesto for the closely-fought May 11th campaign, the alliance made a number of promises that they pledged would be kept in their first 100 days in office including to reduce the Berbice River Bridge toll. Government workers would be looking forward to salary increases while Guyanese have also been promised that the Value Added Tax (VAT) would be reduced and the tax removed from food and other essential items.

In the next 100 days, the coalition also said that it would increase old age pensions. It would also recommend and refer to a special select committee of the National Assembly, a reduction of the presidential pension. Guyanese would be looking forward to the establishment of