{"id":15824,"date":"2024-01-24T19:13:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15824"},"modified":"2024-01-24T19:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T19:13:18","slug":"president-ali-urges-opposition-to-face-facts-and-defend-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-ali-urges-opposition-to-face-facts-and-defend-record\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ali Urges Opposition to Face Facts and Defend Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali asserted that the People\u2019s Progressive Party\/Civic (PPP\/C) inherited a range of &#8220;free-fall&#8221; sectors from the previous administration, particularly the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a live broadcast on his official Facebook page, President Ali emphasized that his government, since assuming office in 2020, has strategically planned for the holistic development of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President highlighted the decline in major industries during the APNU+AFC&#8217;s tenure. Output levels for traditional sectors like sugar contracted by $21 billion, and the productive sector witnessed a decline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the country&#8217;s reserves experienced a decrease between 2015-2019, and the deficit of the Central Government escalated from $9.3 billion to $30 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali expressed the need for his government to unravel the consequences of the coalition government&#8217;s actions to implement its developmental plan for the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He criticized the coalition government for putting financial pressure on the private sector, leading to the folding of several companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As budget debates were set to begin, President Ali challenged the opposition, specifically the APNU+AFC, to defend their record during their time in government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President&#8217;s statements underscore the ongoing political discourse in Guyana, with the current administration outlining the challenges inherited and calling for accountability from the previous government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali asserted that the People\u2019s Progressive Party\/Civic (PPP\/C) inherited a range of &#8220;free-fall&#8221; sectors from the previous administration, particularly the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15826,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15824\/revisions\/15826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}