Dear Editor,
I am writing to follow up on my letter from January 2017 regarding the adoption of a basic income guarantee tied to a dividend payment from our natural resources, including oil and gas. As I mentioned in my previous letter, I strongly believe in a broad-based citizens share approach. Recently, the Guyana Chronicle newspaper reported that over $64 billion has been distributed to Guyanese citizens in the first two years of the current administration. If my proposal from six years ago was implemented, this amount would have provided every family of five with approximately $426 thousand in […]
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