we had several meetings over six days with the opposition during which the government provided exhaustive answers to all their concerns and offered reasonable responses to their demands.
In the course of these engagements, we had reached agreements with APNU which they subsequently reneged on, fearing that the AFC would steal political support from them, and bowing to pressures from extremists in and outside of their ranks.
We demonstrated goodwill from the beginning in increasing the old age pension to ten thousand dollars per month. That alone would cost the treasury more than one billion dollars.
More than that we agreed on a package of measures to assist the citizens of Linden where we agreed to implement a phased reduction in subsidies which would see the citizens of that mining community paying only a half of the tariff which the rest of the country is paying.
In the course of these engagements, we had reached agreements with APNU which they subsequently reneged on, fearing that the AFC would steal political support from them, and bowing to pressures from extremists in and outside of their ranks.
We demonstrated goodwill from the beginning in increasing the old age pension to ten thousand dollars per month. That alone would cost the treasury more than one billion dollars.
More than that we agreed on a package of measures to assist the citizens of Linden where we agreed to implement a phased reduction in subsidies which would see the citizens of that mining community paying only a half of the tariff which the rest of the country is paying.