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PNP youths slam JLPs' budget plans
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
THE youth arm of the People's National Party (PNP) yesterday rapped Opposition Leader Bruce Golding and JLP spokesman on finance Audley Shaw over their budget presentations, saying the substance of their arguments lacked focus.
Andrew O'Kola, chairman of the People's National Party Youth Organisation, speaking at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)
At a press conference at PNP headquarters, PNPYO chairman Andrew O'Kola said both presentations failed to conceptualise and articulate an alternative economic path for Jamaica.
".The budget presentations of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were woefully inadequate in response to (finance minister) Dr Omar Davies' presentation on how to move the economy forward, and by extension the society forward," said O'Kola.
The JLP last week promised to target inflation and create jobs to reduce the high unemployment levels among young people.
Golding, in his budget presentation, restated some party positions, including free tuition from basic to secondary school.
The JLP also promised to revive the manufacturing sector to create jobs for thousands of unemployed young people.
"If one were to listen to Mr Shaw, one would think that the economic problems of Jamaica are solely the fault of Dr Davies," O'Kola said. "But the truth is that they failed to provide credible and workable alternatives."
According to O'Kola, the JLP must tell the country that the economic problems of the country will not be solved overnight, as Jamaica's economic performance was influenced by both local and international activities.
O'Kola said the way out of debt was not to accumulate more debt, an indirect criticism of the PNP's economic policies, which have created more debt, while revenue-generating economic activities have stagnated.
The PNPYO, said O'Kola, does not support the proposal for a constitutional cap on borrowing from the central bank, because of Jamaica's vulnerability to disasters.
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
THE youth arm of the People's National Party (PNP) yesterday rapped Opposition Leader Bruce Golding and JLP spokesman on finance Audley Shaw over their budget presentations, saying the substance of their arguments lacked focus.
Andrew O'Kola, chairman of the People's National Party Youth Organisation, speaking at a press conference at the party's headquarters in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) At a press conference at PNP headquarters, PNPYO chairman Andrew O'Kola said both presentations failed to conceptualise and articulate an alternative economic path for Jamaica.
".The budget presentations of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were woefully inadequate in response to (finance minister) Dr Omar Davies' presentation on how to move the economy forward, and by extension the society forward," said O'Kola.
The JLP last week promised to target inflation and create jobs to reduce the high unemployment levels among young people.
Golding, in his budget presentation, restated some party positions, including free tuition from basic to secondary school.
The JLP also promised to revive the manufacturing sector to create jobs for thousands of unemployed young people.
"If one were to listen to Mr Shaw, one would think that the economic problems of Jamaica are solely the fault of Dr Davies," O'Kola said. "But the truth is that they failed to provide credible and workable alternatives."
According to O'Kola, the JLP must tell the country that the economic problems of the country will not be solved overnight, as Jamaica's economic performance was influenced by both local and international activities.
O'Kola said the way out of debt was not to accumulate more debt, an indirect criticism of the PNP's economic policies, which have created more debt, while revenue-generating economic activities have stagnated.
The PNPYO, said O'Kola, does not support the proposal for a constitutional cap on borrowing from the central bank, because of Jamaica's vulnerability to disasters.
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