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The AFC embarks on an Economic Renewal Plan for Guyana. In a few months we will be in a new decade. Hundreds of Guyanese participated in developing the 2001-2010 National Development Strategy. The goal of that plan was “Eradicating Poverty and Unifying Guyana”.
The AFC finds it regrettable that after almost ten years, the government is yet to embrace the plan and has failed to implement numerous recommendations. The fact is Guyana needs a new National Development Strategy focused on an economic revival of our nation. The AFC considers a new National Development Strategy of utmost importance to the future development of our nation.
This PPP government has run our nation on an ad hoc, unplanned development and has placed Guyana at the bottom of the league of developing nations in the hemisphere. AFC calls for new key economic zones to be established in areas such as Lethem and Linden and for the road to Brazil to be completed. The nation also needs a new agricultural program.
The government must come to the realization that merely growing more food does not create economic viability. AFC proposes a macro-agriculture program by communities where technical help, soil conditions and economies of scale will be realized. Everyone planting small quantities of the same produce, as this government is currently spending millions to propagate, will not create a strong export market and bring real agriculture-based economic viability.
And finally any economic plan that does not address job creation and unemployment levels, the narco-economy and the overall tax system in which the poor are made to pay the taxes for the rich is a non-starter.
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