“IT is time to say our final goodbyes to the APNU+AFC, rest in peace,” was the message delivered by PPP/C stalwart, Ms. Gail Teixeira to the residents of Bel Air on Tuesday evening.Alicia Takurdin, a youth and a member of the Bel Air Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) related that she has lived the progress and have been given many educational opportunities as she is now a student at the University of Guyana.

“As a young member of PYO, I experienced massive progress. Youths are empowered in numerous skills and the young people are the driving force of the future.” Takurdin also noted that under the PPP/C for the last 23 years the youths of Guyana were under firm leadership.
University of Guyana students, Takurdin noted, over the last few months were very traumatic and the Opposition have only mounted a blame game without assisting in any way. “What they have done was fill the minds of persons with negatives but how can you care about the students if you cut the student loans which make tertiary education accessible.”
She said further that the PPP/C Government fought for and continued with the student loans so as to give all Guyanese the access to a tertiary education.
“The PPP/C has plans and projects for the continued progress for this country, young people come out on May 11 and vote for the PPP/C,” Takurdin urged.
Another youth within the PPP/C, Charles Ramson Jr., a lawyer by profession, spoke extensively on the attacks and destructive behaviour of the Opposition supporters. He made specific mention of a group of persons who took to throwing potatoes at the PPP/C vehicle as they were announcing their public meetings in Sophia. He urged “for us to get the future we desire it is only through the PPP/C.”
“We will get the chance to not vote for them (APNU+AFC) on May 11 to pay them back for cutting the budget,” Gail Teixeira declared as she took the podium to educate her supporters on issues and achievements in the country.
MOST CRITICAL DAY
She explained to the persons gathered that May 11 will be the most critical day in our history where you the people have the power in your hands to decide whether we will go forward and progress or go backwards with the APNU+AFC (A Partnership of National Unity and Alliance For Change).
“We come to you with a track record, we are the party that fought for Independence and fought for the right for our people to vote and have free and fair elections,” she stressed.
The high-ranking PPP member urged that with this focus in mind, the May 11 polls represent a call for Guyanese to “do a reckoning” and weigh the improvements in their lives.
“Sit down with a piece of paper and a pencil and check. What has changed from 1992 to now for you? What have you been able to accomplish? What are the challenges? If it is the positives that you are checking off then it can only be the PPP/C that you vote for,” she said.
“The rigging of elections affected all Guyanese; the right to choose a Government was stolen from us, and by persons who wanted to hold power at any cost,” she said. In addition to rigged elections, the then People’s National Congress (PNC) took four years to decide whether they wanted elections and what the procedures were going to be.
She spoke extensively about the Opposition speaking of change and they have little youth and women presence in the party.
Teixeira alluded to all the achievements under the PPP/C Government and explained that the youths of today were born under the PPP/C and have seen this growth. “This country was in shambles when we took over in 1992. Now 80% of the Guyanese people have the luxuries of a television, fridge, microwave and computer – 61% was below poverty line prior to 1992.”
The MP also educated the crowd on the rules and regulations for voting on Election Day and the procedures of voting by proxy. She emphasised to all that it is of the utmost importance that you keep your ID cards safe.
“Come May 11, if you want more progress vote for the PPP/C… vote for the cup,” she urged.

By Rebecca Ganesh