Billy Ram Balgobin posted:Mars posted:Gilbakka posted:Django posted:have you any stats on poverty, you can share on GNI.
Gilly aiding Billy:
"according to the Guyana Poverty Reduction Strategy: 2011 β 2015".
So they were poor all along from since PPP days. Ram Goat is trying to make us believe that everybody suddenly became poor in the last three years.
Nanny Mars,
I am just citing the fact the poverty and unemployment are on a rapid increase in Guyana over the last three years. This is a fact. This is not an attempt to deny the existence of poverty over the last three decades.
Just saying that unemployment rose over the last few years is just being silly Billy. Your PPP destroyed the sugar industry so what do you expect, for them to hire more people? That is a big loss of jobs but the only way to save the industry was to close the estates that were bleeding cash. Not everyone is poorer. Unfortunately, the sugar industry took the brunt of it but it was on the death bed when it was handed over in 2015. Many other government workers can tell you they have seen positive increases over the last three years and with the tax threshold also being increased, it has meant a lot more money in their pockets.