PPP courts gov’t support to develop municipalities
Campaign Manager for Corriverton, Adrian Anamayah, along with candidates who contested in the Corriverton municipality
Campaign Manager for Corriverton, Adrian Anamayah, along with candidates who contested in the Corriverton municipality

UNCONFIRMED reports from statements of poll have the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) taking two of the three towns in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six).

The PPP has won the municipalities of Rose Hall and Corriverton, while conceding the loss of New Amsterdam. Based on information collected at the various polling stations, the PPP has won 11 of the 16 seats in Rose Hall Town after defeating the APNU and URP in six of the eight constituencies.

Of the 1951 votes cast at Rose Hall Town, the PPP got 1203 votes, APNU,721 and the URP 23, respectively. Gladwyn Allicock, a current councillor at the Rose Hall Town municipality said from the preliminary results in Rose Hall it appears many people are still voting for parties as opposed to policies; but nevertheless he is looking forward to continued development in his municipality.

In New Amsterdam the APNU heads all parties with 10 seats followed by the PPP with three and the AFC one for the 14 seats in the municipality.
Over in Corriverton, after winning in all eight constituencies, the PPP collected 14 of the 16 seats. The APNU received two seats.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle, the PPP’s Campaign Manager for the Upper Corentyne area Adrian Anamayah said his team is ecstatic about the victory and being able to maintain the 14-2 control of the town as they did in 2016. Anamayah said he is pleased with the hard work of the campaign and is now looking forward to the government’s support in helping to develop the town further.

“There are a lot that needs to be done, so this council will not rest especially after coming from the elections campaign and being in the fields and learning first-hand about the needs of the residents. No council is perfect and a lot is still to be done; but we need the government’s help, especially in releasing the subvention for major infrastructural works,” he said.

He noted that despite an average of 42% voters’ turnout at the LGEs for the municipality, he is pleased with the results, but feels a lot more still needs to be done especially in the area of voter education for the 2020 general elections.

Meanwhile, the youngest candidate on the PPP’s slate, 19-year-old Fiyaz Muttoo, who contested in Constituency #5 -Queenstown and won 212 to 109 over APNU’s candidate, said he is inspired by the PPP to do better for his community and country; especially in affording youths an opportunity to be part of such an important bottom-up development process.

The Corriverton municipality had 9729 registered voters of which approximately 4000 voted with 3899 valid ballots counted and was contested by the PPP, 2,918, APNU, 902, AFC, 55 and URP, 24 votes, respectively. Apart from the three major parties to contest in Region Six, the URP and one independent candidate contested as well. The URP contested in Rose Hall and Corriverton, while Abraham Rajkumar Subnauth contested in the #52/74 NDC under the National Congress of Progressive People’s Alliance.

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