CORRUPTION and mismanagement have claimed yet another victim in the small Alliance For Change (AFC) party, this time its former General Secretary Sixtus Edwards. It’s a shame the way this selfless individual of irrefutable character was treated by a party which promised ‘change’; all for insisting that it practises what it preaches.Edwards joins a long list of individuals who have left after differences with the party’s leadership over various issues. Another soon to be departed is stalwart Gerhard Ramsaroop whose noticeable absence has been pointed out by many.

These days the AFC appears to be a shell of its former self as what was once a vibrant collective group of leaders is now replaced by a small self-centred clique which has on its front burner the fulfilment of Moses Nagamootoo’s presidential dream.

As the party negotiates to formalise its union with the PNC’s APNU one therefore has to ask what really is it bringing to the table other than the 11% Indo-Guyanese promised by Moses Nagamootoo. I wish to commend Sixtus Edwards for remaining steadfast to his principles and not allowing himself to be succumbed by the duplicitous and hypocritical politics practised by some of his now former colleagues.

BALDEO MATHURA