PPP/C has “a proud record of implementing our manifesto promises” – Nandlall

On the heels of the presentation of Budget 2026, Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall has reaffirmed that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has a proud and verifiable record of implementing the promises it makes to the electorate.
The $1.558 trillion Budget 2026 was presented on Monday with the theme “Putting People First” and includes a number of measures, policies and programmes in keeping with the 2025 manifesto of the PPP/C.
During his programme “Issues in the News” on Tuesday evening, Nandlall reassured citizens that the PPP/C has a track record of keeping the promises it makes to the electorate.
“We told the people that if you voted for us, then, we are going to implement these promises and these policies. People went to the polls, and they voted resoundingly for us. We received the most votes that a political party has received since democracy was returned to this country in 1992… We have a proud and verifiable record of implementing our manifesto promises. No one can accuse us of making promises which we do not deliver,” he affirmed.
Nandlall went on to explain that the PPP/C Administration is now in the process of implementing those promises and that Budget 2026 constitutes the first instalment of the execution of those commitments.
Nandlall also rebuffed criticisms from the opposition that the ordinary man will not benefit from the budget measures.
“Who is going to use the roads and bridges? Who are going to go to the schools and benefit from our educational programmes? Who will benefit from the health sector and the services that the health sector provides? Who are going to benefit from housing? Who is going to benefit from energy expansion? Who are going to benefit from the agriculture sector? Who are going to benefit from the security sector? Who is going to benefit from the social sector?” he posited.
Speaking specifically about the funding for infrastructural projects, Nandlall further contended that all citizens stand to benefit.
“Who’s benefitting from all of this? Who are we building it for? The PPP and PPP supporters alone? Those very ones who are criticising want to drive Rolls Royces and Lamborghinis on these very highways, but they are criticising,” he contended.
Meanwhile, the Attorney General also addressed concerns about Budget 2026 not catering for salary increases for public servants, highlighting that “conventionally, salary increases are not part of our budgetary process; that comes as a separate measure later down in the year.”
Nevertheless, he reasoned that “this budget puts billions of billions of dollars into your pockets by the measures… Indirectly, every Guyanese has received a massive salary increase, a massive income increase, because dozens of these measures will impact you getting more disposable income.”
President Dr Irfaan Ali has already pointed out that Budget 2026 caters to some $150 billion in cash transfers for a nation of under one million people.
Once the budget is passed, the “Because We Care” cash grant will increase to $60,000 per child, benefitting some 206,000 children, translating to in excess of $12 billion in direct transfer to the population.
Coupled with the $100,000 per adult citizen cash grant initiative, this represents an accumulative $72.4 billion being disbursed directly into the hands of citizens. There is now the annual transportation grant for students, pegged at $20,000 per child.
Additionally, every newborn to a Guyanese mother in the country is entitled to $100,000. Old Age Pensioners will now get $46,000 per month, an annual cost of $52 billion, as well as a $20,000 transportation grant. Additionally, the public assistance programme will see $25,000 per person being distributed.
“So, you’re talking, cumulatively, about close to maybe $150 billion of cash transfer in a country with less than a million persons, going out there,” President Ali had remarked.