Dear Editor
I AM very disappointed with the way things are going now that LGEs are near and the political parties and others running for offices are on the campaign trail.  Local Government Elections are all about our local grass- root people and our villages, community and environment.  It’s about what will those running do for the betterment of the people living in the villages and towns.  But I am amazed at the PPP’s tactics of winning the various NDCs.On Saturday 20th February, 2016, the PPP had a public meeting in Region Five at Woodley Park, the village I live in.  As I sat and listened to the speakers such as the Regional Chairman, former MP Jaffarally and MP Nigel Dharamlall, I was amazed to know the level they will stoop in making our people uneducated about the LGE and the attacks they carry out on government officials and others.
The speakers at that meeting said nothing about what they or the candidates of their party that will be running for Bath\Woodley Park NDC will do to better the lives of the villagers.  They said nothing about that.  It amazes me when the regional chairman said that we in the APNU+AFC do not want to see betterment in the region, because of what has been taking place at the RDC statutory meetings since January 2016.
The chairman told the people of Woodley Park that he was never invited for the commissioning of the buses that was donated to the region. He (the chairman) must come clean and tell the people that he does nothing by his own but only what the party and his advisers at Freedom House tell him to do and that’s what he did, stay away from an event that is geared towards developing the region that he presides over. The chairman must also be respectful and tell the people of Region Five, especially those in Woodley Park, about the reasons why the RDC meetings are not going as usual business and it is all because of his fault not to represent the people of Region Five.  All we at the RDC are asking is for the chairman to respect the President, the government and the people of Region Five by publicly apologising to His Excellency President David Granger and the People of Region Five for failing to show up at that commissioning as the regional chairman of all the people of Region Five. Is this hard for him to do?  If he truly wants the work of the region to continue under him, then he should do the right thing.  Unless that is done he will not sit and handle any of the RDC’s business.  He is disrespectful to the people of Region Five.
He and the other speakers spoke about things that have no connection to the development of Woodley Park.  He failed to tell the people that their village which is controlled by a PPP-dominated NDC does not have proper roads, the drains are clogged and the gate to the community ground is missing.  The PPP must start educating its supporters about the LGE and move away from the empty rhetoric and divisive messages.

Abel Seetaram