‘Guyanese are starving; PPP enacting laws ensuring people remain poor’ – MP Fernandes

‘Team Mohamed’ of Mohamed’s Enterprise fame, led by Azruddin Mohamed, distributed “500 hampers and 1000 school bags” according to information posted to Facebook by Attorney at Law and Businessman James Bond. The activity took place at Bond’s Cigars and Cognac establishment, Melanie. The items were given out to “the children and families of Melanie, Paradise, Enterprise, Non Pariel and neighboring communities,” Bond said.

While Hon. Juretha Fernandes, MP, in a Facebook post, thanked the “businessmen” stating that the gesture was “welcomed” on New Year’s Day, she said “People in this country are starving while the oil wealth is being stolen.”

An economist by training, MP Fernandes, noted, “This is the Guyana that we live in, a land in which our country is recorded among the fastest growing economies in the world while people are living below the poverty line.”

Fernandes further said, ” I wish to see businessmen in communities searching for young talents and investing in startup businesses. For only then can you truly aid in poverty reduction. I commend the efforts from the businessmen that thought it was a good idea to give to persons in need, we all have to do our part. And their efforts must be commended.”

In 2021 Guyanese saw a 14% raise in basic food prices and an inflation rate of almost 6%. Oil revenues total close to a billion US dollars , with the installed PPP regime recently enacting the Natural Resources Bill 2021 that ensures little real oversight is provided as to how the funds are invested and spent.

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