THE campaign of the coalesced A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) made its way to New Jersey, in the United States of America (USA) on Saturday where fundraisers, private meetings and town-hall-style events were the order of the day.Presidential candidate for APNU+AFC, Brigadier (rtd) David Granger has stressed at previous meetings that Guyana is open for business. Speaking to a sizeable gathering of Guyanese on Friday night at the Woodbine Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York, he said: “I am here (in New York) to ask you to invest in change… Guyana is open for business.”

Granger said that, under an APNU+AFC administration, Guyanese living in the diaspora would be encouraged to participate in the development of Guyana. “We need you; we need your skills and your expertise…. We need teachers, technicians, engineers,” he said.

Calling attention to Guyana’s outward migration, Granger said: “We have lost a lot of our educated professionals through migration, and we believe that one of the most important elements of our (APNU+AFC) new policy would be to strengthen education.

“Guyana will be an education nation. We will place great emphasis on training scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematicians……. Education is the key to our development.”

The APNU+AFC prime ministerial candidate, attorney-at-law Mr Moses Nagamootoo, also addressed the gathering. He underscored the merits of the alliance, and stressed: “It is time for change” –- an opportunity that will not be squandered to ensure that the Guyanese people see progress and the country moves forward.

“On May 11th , the APNU+AFC will win; and we will unite Guyana,” Nagamootoo predicted.

The APNU+AFC alliance was created by the inking of the Cummingsburg Accord in mid-February.