Today the main opposition the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R ) says the recent visit by President Jagdeo to Buxton has shifted the wider issue of the discriminatory policies of the PPP to a single community, giving the false impression that there are no other examples of their tarnished record around Guyana. A brief visit to the many villages in Guyana in Essequibo, West Demerara, East Coast Demerara, West Coast Berbice and Corentyne will reveal the discriminatory manner in which the PPP/C Administration has undertaken infrastructural and other developments in Guyana.
The PNCR had cause to expose the recent initiative of the Jagdeo Cabinet Outreach at Linden where the Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, travelled with over five million dollars of tax payer’s money in cash to disburse to those willing to carry out the biddings of the PPP.
In Region Five, West Coast Berbice, the situation is no different. Recently, the PNCR says their party was obliged to expose the unconscionable demand by the GWI for the Hopetown Land Cooperative Society to pay three million dollars, merely to connect the water supply line to their new housing development area at Catherina’s Lust. When the Minister of Housing and Water attempted to do damage control, after the PNCR’s Press Statement, his offer was to reduce the fee to one million, five hundred thousand dollars.
The main opposition calls on the PPP General Secretary, Mr. Donald Ramotar, to address these issues rather than seeking to divert attention to Buxton alone.
