THERE was no mistaking the message. ‘PPP/C will take it back’ was blaring vibrantly as Prime Minister Samuel Hinds took to the podium.The occasion was part of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Linden Rally, held yesterday at Wismar, where PM Hinds urged supporters to come out in the numbers and vote unanimously for the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) on May 11.

Recalling how the politcal climate was when he first ventured into politics, Hinds said the saying at the time was, “We can burst open our country and make it a developed country.”
And with this in mind, he said, “In 1990, I answered the call to join the PPP/C with former President, Dr Jagan and end the period of rigged elections and dictatorship in Guyana.”
Recalling for the benefit of many in the audience who were too young to know what transpired back then, the many horror stories that plagued the country prior to the 1992 elections, and how far we’ve come as a country since, Hinds summed it all up, saying:
“Change is evident in Guyana and in here in Linden; this community has shared equitably in all aspects from our budget and concessions. Some of the best school buildings are in Linden; also you have one of the best hospitals here, and the best water supply to be commissioned here in linden.”
Noting that the PPP/C government has always had Linden’s back where development was concerned, he said: “We have always ensured that Linden has shared equitably.”
As for the many attempts the Government has made over the years to save the bauxite industry, PM Hinds said: “There was an international manager for the bauxite industry prior to 1992; and he was supposed to be able to turn the bauxite industry into a profitable organization.”
The People’s National Congress (PNC), he said, had agreed to the arrangement at the time, so as the industry would no longer be a burden on the government.
By 1994, he said, it was clear to all and sundry that there was no way of turning the industry around; but the PPP/C didn’t give up on Linden. “The PPP/C didn’t close it down; we kept supporting the industry,” Hinds said. “And we did it because we understood how traumatic it would have been for the people here in Linden.”
It was a touching story, the way PM Hinds told it. And for keeping the industry afloat to become a reality, he said, the government approached the multilateral agencies for their support so that the people in Linden would have an opportunity to develop their entrepreneurial opportunities and diversify the activities here in linden.
He listed as being among some of the developments Lindeners were poised to achieve under the PPPC administration the construction of new housing schemes in Amelia’s Ward. “There should be no question that the PPP/C has your best interest at heart,” he said, adding:
“We have been working for our people since the 1940s; and we should rally our people to come out on May 11 and vote unanimously for the PPP/C.”