PM Phillips promises bigger cash grant if PPP is re-elected

Jul 14, 2025 News

PPP supporters at the party’s campaign launch

Kaieteur News – Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Sunday promised that if reelected the PPPC Government will deliver more cash grants not less than $100,000.

“Last year, we paid 100,000 cash grant for every Guyanese 18 years and above. And it didn’t done deh, because once we start something, we got to continue it, and if we pay $100,000, next time we ain’t gone pay you less than 100,000 so you figure it out for yourself, more cash grant coming, and it will not be less than $100,000,” Phillips told a large crowd of PPP supporters at their election campaign launch in Kitty.

Earlier this year General Secretary of the PPP and Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo, shared similar sentiments where he announced that future cash grants will be distributed if the PPP secures a next term in office. “You will get your cash grants in the future too,” Jagdeo said as he addressed a gathering at Babu Jaan, Corentyne, Berbice. “Just imagine the next term in office how glorious that will be,” he added.

During his address, Jagdeo reaffirmed that the PPP stands by its commitments. “When we make these promises that President Ali spoke about in the next term, you best believe that they will be delivered,” he noted.

Meanwhile, Phillips recounted the party’s commitment made during the 2020 election campaign, saying, “We came with a manifesto with a lot of promises, and today, we are reporting to you that we have fulfilled our promises to you. It’s a case of promises made, promises delivered.” According to Prime Minister Phillips, from the hinterland to the coastland, the PPP/C government, over the past four and a half years, has implemented a national development agenda characterised by modern highways, improved community roads, new educational facilities, expanded healthcare access, and greater employment opportunities. “We have brought five years of development to Guyana. And you know what? You go to every part of Guyana, every region, every village, every community, the people say they benefit from our policies,” he underscored, according to a Department of Public Information report.

He also highlighted the efforts made to revitalise the agriculture sector under the leadership of President Ali. “This is the government that brought life back to Guyana’s farmland and pride to the people who feed our nation,” he stated. “And guess what? They did a survey only two months ago, and revealed the findings of the survey…Guyana emerged as the number one nation, the top nation that can feed its population.”

This was not political rhetoric, PM Phillips stated, but lived reality for communities across all ten administrative regions. “Those who have eyes to see must see, those who have ears to hear must hear, and those who can feel must feel,” he asserted. The prime minister also referred to the PNC-led opposition as “a coalition of lightweights” and “dead weights,” accusing them of racist remarks and a superficial approach to diversity and youth engagement. He described the PPP/C as a “national and multi-ethnic party” representing “all the colours of Guyana, all the races of Guyana.”

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