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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
ONE of six islandwide People’s National Party (PNP) protests against Government's latest tax package, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson today led a peaceful protest of about 300 supporters gathered along Mandela Highway.
The protests went ahead even after Prime Minister Bruce Golding bowed into overwhelming public opinion and promised to reconsider the taxes, used to fill a $21.8 billion hole in the budget. The prime minister is expected to announce several revisions during a 9:00 pm television and radio broadcast tonight.
Speaking at Mandela Highway protest, party chairman Robert Pickersgill criticised the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and its new consumption taxes announced last Thursday, saying that the PNP was ready to win an election for the first time since being voted out of office in 2007.
“Like the boy scouts we are prepared. We ask Jamaica to make a fair comparison. This woeful government is in its third year and what do they have to show for it? Having scored a hattrick of taxes in eight months, they trying to score another,” said Pickersgill.
The PNP is scheduled to hold a total of six protests today in Highgate, St Mary; Cross Roads in Kingston; St Ann's Bay in St Ann; Sam Sharpe Square in St James; The Mandela Highway/Portmore Crossing in St Catherine, and Mandeville in Manchester.
Meantime Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional wing of the JLP, said that there was no good reason for the protests.
"G2K can only surmise that the PNP is bent on exploiting the current economic challenges facing the Golding administration for cheap political gain," said the statement.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
ONE of six islandwide People’s National Party (PNP) protests against Government's latest tax package, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson today led a peaceful protest of about 300 supporters gathered along Mandela Highway.
The protests went ahead even after Prime Minister Bruce Golding bowed into overwhelming public opinion and promised to reconsider the taxes, used to fill a $21.8 billion hole in the budget. The prime minister is expected to announce several revisions during a 9:00 pm television and radio broadcast tonight.
Speaking at Mandela Highway protest, party chairman Robert Pickersgill criticised the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and its new consumption taxes announced last Thursday, saying that the PNP was ready to win an election for the first time since being voted out of office in 2007.
“Like the boy scouts we are prepared. We ask Jamaica to make a fair comparison. This woeful government is in its third year and what do they have to show for it? Having scored a hattrick of taxes in eight months, they trying to score another,” said Pickersgill.
The PNP is scheduled to hold a total of six protests today in Highgate, St Mary; Cross Roads in Kingston; St Ann's Bay in St Ann; Sam Sharpe Square in St James; The Mandela Highway/Portmore Crossing in St Catherine, and Mandeville in Manchester.
Meantime Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional wing of the JLP, said that there was no good reason for the protests.
"G2K can only surmise that the PNP is bent on exploiting the current economic challenges facing the Golding administration for cheap political gain," said the statement.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lates...ul-PNP-protest
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