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Originally posted by albert:
The P.P.P/C was never formed out of persons with out of control super egos....but by persons who were pro-working class.....the working class unto this day....reminds on the front burner of the P.P.P/C....


So let me understand this better you are saying that we were formed with the working class in mind I agree now row there me and you we like twins on this.

However, brother man I must say on the notion of the line that it remains on the front burner of the PPP/c I gotta tell you well hold on lemme clear my throat uggghh ugghghghg clreearr!

Ok there we go sorry about that folks but umm yeah albee back to you here for a sec. So you think we have the working class on the front burner when we have failed to pay the widow of the sugar worker that died at the sugar packaging plant?

Albert do you think we have the working class as a priority when we have ministers driving around in prados and BMW's? Which senior govt minister lives in a home that is representative of the working class?

Let me ask you something do you think the working class in this country makes $800,000 dollars a month? Texiera makes that a month do you know that? How does this align with the working class agenda you speaketh of?

One last thing before I go children cannot afford to cross the berbice bridge they are not getting exercise books so which working class exactly it is that we are fighting for?

We are not doing anything for

- policemen
- Nothing for nurses
- Nothing for teachers
- Nada for sugar workers
- Nada for poor people with 16% vat taxes


So which working class you are really saying we are aligned with help me find them in Guyana please help me find them.
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Investment in People
a. Education.

2010

 Government expended a sum of $21.8 billion over the last year in the sector.

 The National School Feeding programme which cost over $900 million and benefited more than 63,000 students.

 The National School Uniform Assistance Programme which benefited over 200,000

 $923 million was expended on construction works at 2 new technical institutes in Regions 3 and 5, along with the procurement of furniture, tools, and equipment for all institutes,

 $129 million was expended on the Secondary Competency Certificate Programme implemented in 18 additional secondary schools.

 $875 million has been expended on teacher education towards the operations and renovation works at the Cyril Potter College, which added a total of 364 trained teachers to the education system in 2010.

 $2.4 billion was also expended in 2010 towards the maintenance, rehabilitation, extension and construction of educational facilities throughout Guyana

 78 information technology laboratories were completed at primary and secondary schools

2011

 $24.3 billion has been allocated towards the continued successful implementation of the National Education Strategic Plan in 2011

 US$4.2 million Guyana Improving Teacher Education Project of which $200 million is budgeted for 2011

 $919 million has been budgeted for teacher training towards the medium term target of achieving 70 percent trained teachers in the system by 2013.

 Work has commenced and will continue during 2011 on the design of a US$10 million project to strengthen the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Guyana as a permanent academic and research institutional

 University of Guyana has been allocated $769 million towards the operations and maintenance of the Turkeyen and Tain campuses.

 $450 million has been provided for student loans.

 The National School Feeding programme has been allocated over $1 billion and will continue to deliver a snack to every student in all nursery schools and grades 1 and 2 of primary schools.

 School Uniform Assistance Programme will continue to be implemented in 2011, and will see every school child provided with one school uniform during the year.

 $1.6 billion has been budgeted for technical vocational education and include the completion of construction works at the vocational centres in Regions 3 and 5, the construction of a student dormitory at Essequibo Technical Institute.

 $2.8 billion has been allocated for the continued maintenance, rehabilitation, extension and construction of educational facilities countrywide.

b. Health

2010

 Government expended $13.4 billion in 2010 towards the implementation of the National Health Sector Strategy 2008-2012.

 $1.3 billion was expended for the construction, rehabilitation and maintenance of health care facilities in 2010.

 Over $280 million was expended on training, while more than 150 new health workers entered the public health sector contributing to improved doctors and nurses’ population ratio.

2011

 $14 billion has been allocated to the health sector

 Government has budgeted to inject $345 million into training activities, which will provide for an additional 250 professional nurses being trained and 140 clinical and technical staff, while over 280 students in various health disciplines are currently in training across the various schools.

 1 billion has been budgeted for the construction and maintenance of health sector buildings and infrastructure nationwide

 Storage bond in Diamond will be completed in 2011

 $235 million has been budgeted for the completion of the GPHC inpatient facility. Additionally, facilities at Enmore Polyclinic, West Demerara Hospital, Leguan, and Oscar Joseph District Hospitals will be upgraded.

c. Housing

2010

 Over $9.6 billion was expended in the housing sector in 2010

 Allocated of 6,331 house lots as well as the distributed 4,591 land titles surpassing our targets of 5,500 house lots and 3,750 land titles

 $343.7 million was expended over the last year for the successful completion of a $2.2 billion housing project which has realised the construction and upgrading of roads, drains and structures benefiting 4,636 lots in areas such as Cummings Lodge C&Y, Sophia, Westminster, Belle West, Glasgow and Onderneeming.

 $680 million was spent on the construction of roads, drains and structures in areas such as Block 8 Mon Repos, Plantation Schoonord, Anna Catherina, Hope Estate

2011

 $3.6 billion is allocated to the housing sector to facilitate the development of housing schemes which is expected to result in the allocation of 7,500 house lots and the processing and distribution of 4,000 land titles.

 $700 million will be spent on improving the road network and water distribution systems to the benefit approximately 1,500 households.

 Under the Second Low Income Settlement Programme, 148 core houses are expected to be completed

d. Water

2010

 $3.4 billion was expended in the water sector

 Completion of the water treatment plants at Lima, Vergenoegen, Cotton Tree, Central Ruimveldt, Sophia and Corriverton benefiting over 100,000 persons with improved water quality.

 15,000 service connections were upgraded and in excess of 5,000 water meters were installed.

2011

 $1.5 billion has been allocated to the water sector to achieve its objective of ensuring improved water supply

 $850 million is allocated for improving water distribution in areas such as Hope, Calcutta, Lochaber, Anna Catherina, Diamond, DeHoop and Bartica.

 In Linden, $75 million is budgeted to improve transmission and distribution systems at Amelia’s Ward and Wisroc from which over 7,000 residents will benefit.

 Another $103 million is budgeted for provision of water to hinterland communities such as Sand Hills, Wiruni, Calcuni, Kariabo, Kwebanna and Mahdia where over 5,000 residents will benefit.

(e) Sanitation

2010

 An allocation of $180 million to commence implementation of the US$10 million Georgetown Sanitation Improvement Programme.

 Work on the access road to Haags Bosch has been completed whilst work on the landfill is now expected to be completed during the first quarter.

2011

 $800 million has been allocated to facilitate the advancing of further works on the construction of the Haags Bosch sanitary landfill.

(f) Vulnerable groups and Other Targeted Interventions
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