CANADA-based Guyanese were not to be left out of the 2020 election campaign as a number of supporters of the APNU-AFC Government successfully staged a Town Hall Rally and Fundraiser at the Fusion Restaurant and Lounge in Scarborough, Ontario.

The Master of Ceremonies for the evening, former Mayor of Linden and President of the Guyana Association of Municipalities, Carwyn Holland, implored the sizeable gathering that “this election is one of Guyana’s most important election as it boils down to a corrupt few led by a dishonourable former President Bharrat Jagdeo versus a people’s movement led by an incorruptible, decent, visionary President David Granger”.

In articulating his point, Holland told the receptive gathering that Jagdeo is seeking a third term by having current PPP/C presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, masquerade as the frontman but he is the one calling the shots as they try to hijack Guyana for nefarious reasons. He further posited that the PPP/C is no longer a ‘Jagan Party’, which was once touted as a party for the working class, because it is now a power-craving gang of corrupt folks seeking to turn Guyana into an oligarchical state.

“They are not satisfied with all the underhandedness they had done to enrich themselves at the expense of taxpayers, they don’t care about sugar workers whom they fooled for decades by bribing them for their loyalty; they don’t care for Berbicians whom they denied infrastructural development and treated as a lower class. They don’t care about our nation’s youths as hundreds were abused and murdered under their watch and, most recently, tried to deny young people the right to vote by vehemently opposing new house-to-house registration. They don’t care about Buxton which they flooded and wanted to turn into a burial ground; they never cared for region 10 and other places that are against their biased leadership and where they committed economic deprivation and stifled development,” Holland noted.

The first Linden-born mayor also called out PPP/C presidential candidate, Irfaan Ali, for vehemently opposing the 2019 region 10’s budgetary allocation which aided much development and now returns hypocritically to the region seeking their support to make him President.

On the other hand, according to Holland, President Granger is leading a people’s movement as Guyanese prefer and embrace his vision of a good life for all. This election he opined, gave rise to a people’s movement which aims to keep Jagdeo, Ali and their corrupt loyalists from getting access to the nation’s coffers which has rebounded from being ‘in the red’. Holland affirmed that Guyana has grown since the coalition government took over and is expected to make giant leaps with our new-found oil wealth.

The main panelists for the event were Dr. Lawrence Benjamin, USA-based James McAllister and long-time PNC member, Allan Zakir, who made riveting presentations. Video messages from Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, prime ministerial candidate and AFC Leader, Kemraj Ramjattan, PNC Chairwoman Volda Lawrence and Director General of the Ministry of the Presidency and APNU General-Secretary, Joe Harmon were also played. There was also no shortage of entertainment as several international recording artistes and dancers from India performed to the satisfaction to those in attendance.