THE PNC/APNU’s rejection of the Amaila Falls Hydroelectricity project has regrettably isolated the party and its leadership and has lost them respect, trust and support.

The international community – IDB, the ABC countries, China, India, Brazil and the Caribbean have concluded that the party has no idea of governance; the business community, both local and foreign, are completely appalled; and many PNC/APNU supporters are disgusted at the Party leadership’s callous disdain of the national interest and lack of concern for theirs and the rest of the population’s electricity costs and regularity of electrical supply.
The leadership of the party was never unified on the destruction of the Amaila Falls project. A small group who were anti-Granger, succeeded in setting him up and manoeuvring him into a position where he could not exercise his own correct judgment on the issue. The strategy is to ultimately sink Granger and eliminate him from the leadership of the party so that they could take over.
Mr. Granger is a decent, level-headed man with a clean political past and the PNC Congress recognised him as such and elected him leader over his challengers who all had questionable political pasts. The challengers have now cleverly withdrawn into the background while Granger is frontally exposed to the flack and opprobrium. But PNC supporters are not fools and know who are the real culprits and will boot them out at the next Congress. Granger will emerge even stronger.