The government’s planned increase in gun licence fees as a revenue earning strategy is “a lazy move,” according to PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee, who yesterday said that this will put a dent in people’s spending power.
“The movement is an exorbitant one and it will put pressure [on people]… when you go to renew your licences now, you have to pay that additional sum of money and this is thousands of dollars. Who don’t need thousands of dollars in their pockets?” he questioned at the party’s weekly press conference.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan, in his 2016 budget presentation last Friday, announced that it is being proposed that the Firearms Act be amended to increase the annual fee for firearm licences. It is being proposed that the
