{"id":15899,"date":"2024-01-26T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15899"},"modified":"2024-01-26T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T13:54:46","slug":"budget-debates-day-2-pearson-and-henry-clash-over-indigenous-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/budget-debates-day-2-pearson-and-henry-clash-over-indigenous-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Debates Day 2: Pearson and Henry Clash Over Indigenous Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In the ongoing budget debates, Government MP Yvonne Pearson and Opposition MP Vincent Henry clashed over the progress of indigenous people in Guyana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The focus was on the pace of development for Amerindians and their communities under the PPP administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry criticized the administration for what he perceived as slow progress in the Amerindian Land Titling Project and inadequate financial support from the sale of carbon credits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Josiah-Yvonne-Debates-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that, in 2023, each family received an average of 180,000 for a sustainable project, and this amount is expected to decrease in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Yvonne Pearson rebutted Henry&#8217;s claims, urging him not to spread half-truths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She clarified that no single person or family received direct funding; instead, the funds were used for projects aimed at boosting employment and food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Josiah-Security-Debates-2-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pearson corrected Henry on the hinterland school feeding and textbook distribution programs, highlighting that the reports he quoted were from the 2015\u20132020 period during the coalition government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasized that, under the PPP administration, indigenous communities continue to undergo transformation through training, employment, and investments in agriculture, health, and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing budget debates, Government MP Yvonne Pearson and Opposition MP Vincent Henry clashed over the progress of indigenous people in Guyana. The focus was on the pace of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899","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=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15903,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions\/15903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}