Georgetown: APNU leader David Granger said that the entire year was marked by dissatisfaction and frustration over the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration’s failure to address citizens’ day-to-day concerns and to improve the population’s quality of life. The fact that 175,000 persons voted against the PPP/C in the General and Regional elections on Monday, 28th November was an indicator of their dissatisfaction with the administration and their support for A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change parties. The calendar for 2011 has been a chronology of anti-administration protests by ordinary people.
Granger in a release to the press stated that the deplorable condition in rural schools and the difficulties students face continued to be a cause for concern. Parents staged a protest in May at the Paradise Primary School, East Coast Demerara, over “unacceptable” conditions at the school. These included the lack of running water, collapsed washroom facilities and insufficient furniture. Parents, guardians and students also protested outside the Ministry of Education in August to complain about the “deplorable state” of President’s College.
The statement added that as the ‘Year of Discontent’ came to a close, supporters of the opposition coalition A.P.N.U held a series of protests in December at the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Elections Commission over its sloppy conduct of the recent general elections. Members of the Guyana Police Force fired on peaceful protesters on Tuesday 6th December. Mr. Granger said that, after 19 years of PPPC administration, the people themselves decided that they “had enough” and resorted to spontaneous protests to seek a better life.
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