Georgetown : The Alliance for Change today says People’s Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Donald Ramotar is clueless on the way forward for Guyana.
The Party is amused at Ramotar’s statement in the Guyana Times of June 26th to the effect that “Guyana’s economic status has risen over the years.”
Ramotar was quoted as saying: “At the economic level, we have moved Guyana from being a basket case in 1992 to being the most dynamic economy in the region today.”
The AFC has pointed out that the failure to generate a meaningful pattern of growth is a product of the absence of a strategic industrial policy. In fact, the volatility that has characterized Guyana’s economic performance is usually associated with economies that depend on primary resource extraction and low productivity agriculture. The unstable nature of GDP growth, thus, cannot be seen as representing macro-economic stability.
On the political front, Ramotar was reported as saying “Guyana is now one of the most democratic nations in the world.
The AFC here challenges Ramotar to a public debate on the PPP’s record on office as well as the policies and programmes of the respective parties for Guyana’s development.
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