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Corey Robinson, Observer staff reporter
Monday, December 21, 2009
PRESIDENT of the Peoples’ National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO), Damion Crawford, has promised to step up islandwide protests if the Government does not roll back proposed tax increases announced last week.
This, after Prime Minister Bruce Golding today declined audience with members of the PNPYO, following a march of about 100 supporters to a section of Hope Road in St Andrew, metres away from Jamaica House.
“It's a waste of time only if it does not achieve it's goal and the goal is not to see the prime minister,” said Crawford, minutes after returning from the entrance to Jamaica House, where he was met by Information Minister, Daryl Vaz.
“The goal is to have the tax revoked. Therefore, seeing the prime minister was just an action as a part of an actual strategy. If he has refused to see us, then we will have to do sufficient things for him to want to see us,” he added.
Vaz accepted a letter from Crawford with proposed recommendations on how the government can plug a hole in the budget as it seeks to conclude negotiations for a US$1.2 billion standby loan facility agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
According to Crawford, the organisation will be taking whatever means necessary to make the Government to comply with their demands. Even an islandwide march on Christmas Day, he said.
“At the end of the day we will sustain it even if it is one person or two. Maybe the prime minister will come to his senses by the 25th, but if not we will be out again,” he said.
Public anger has been mounting since Thursday when Finance Minister Audley Shaw announced an increase in the General Consumption Tax from 16.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent as part of a $21 billion tax package. Golding announced yesterday that is will review the package, following public outcry.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...reased-protest
Monday, December 21, 2009
PRESIDENT of the Peoples’ National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO), Damion Crawford, has promised to step up islandwide protests if the Government does not roll back proposed tax increases announced last week.
This, after Prime Minister Bruce Golding today declined audience with members of the PNPYO, following a march of about 100 supporters to a section of Hope Road in St Andrew, metres away from Jamaica House.
“It's a waste of time only if it does not achieve it's goal and the goal is not to see the prime minister,” said Crawford, minutes after returning from the entrance to Jamaica House, where he was met by Information Minister, Daryl Vaz.
“The goal is to have the tax revoked. Therefore, seeing the prime minister was just an action as a part of an actual strategy. If he has refused to see us, then we will have to do sufficient things for him to want to see us,” he added.
Vaz accepted a letter from Crawford with proposed recommendations on how the government can plug a hole in the budget as it seeks to conclude negotiations for a US$1.2 billion standby loan facility agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
According to Crawford, the organisation will be taking whatever means necessary to make the Government to comply with their demands. Even an islandwide march on Christmas Day, he said.
“At the end of the day we will sustain it even if it is one person or two. Maybe the prime minister will come to his senses by the 25th, but if not we will be out again,” he said.
Public anger has been mounting since Thursday when Finance Minister Audley Shaw announced an increase in the General Consumption Tax from 16.5 per cent to 17.5 per cent as part of a $21 billion tax package. Golding announced yesterday that is will review the package, following public outcry.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...reased-protest