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Guyanese cannot allow Raphael Trotman to fuel more false hope
Dear Editor,
The Alliance For Change has joined the debate of the proposal by Clive Thomas for $1 million to be given to Guyanese households from the oil revenues. The Alliance For Change Leader, Raphael Trotman, in an August 10, 2018 Guyana Chronicle report said, “It is possible; I don’t think we should reject it outright.” The Alliance For Change Leader has even said that he will make representation to Cabinet on the matter.
Editor, this position of the Alliance For Change and its Leader can only be seen as opportunistic and more so since we are months away from the 2018 Local Government Elections and the Alliance For Change has said that it will be going to those elections alone.
I say this for two reasons.
One, where is Guyana getting the money to pay for cash transfers? It is Raphael Trotman’s APNU/AFC Coalition Government that has already said the money will be used for several different things already – for investment, for the Sovereign Wealth Fund, for a Natural Resource Fund and to put into a Stability Fund for when oil prices go low.
Two, it is Raphael Trotman who let Guyana down in the renegotiations with ExxonMobil. All of Guyana already knows that in the end ExxonMobil got the better end of the deal. If Raphael Trotman did not lead such bad negotiations, we might have had money for cash transfers to Guyanese households.
But all of this is being ignored. Guyanese cannot allow Raphael Trotman to fuel more false hopes. After all, almost a year later, people in Berbice are still waiting on the 600 jobs from the US$500 million investment in an onshore supply at Crab Island.
All for your consideration
Zeniah Talbot
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