–VP Jagdeo urges Guyanese

VICE-PRESIDENT, Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has urged Guyanese, more specifically Afro-Guyanese, to not be misled by negativity being peddled by persons who do not have their best interest at heart.

Dr Jagdeo made those remarks during a live interview, during which he reiterated his message to Afro-Guyanese to ignore the negatives from known characters and to take advantage of opportunities presented by the government.

“The same ones who are telling you don’t seek out an opportunity, they’re busy calling the ministers,” he said, adding that those are the same persons who call on government officials for favours.

He added: “Don’t fool yourself that they go in parliament and they beat their chest and behave like that and talk about discrimination, they’re busy calling government to get help.”

Dr Jagdeo related that those are the persons who would go out into the various communities and mislead their constituents as was done in the situation involving the squatters at Mocha-Arcadia, East Bank Demerara, where persons were encouraged by the APNU+AFC to not take various opportunities that were presented by the government.

He went on to add that when this is done, those actors would usually leave those communities without providing realistic and adequate solutions.

Recently, efforts to remove the Mocha squatters from an area they occupied in the path of the intended Eccles to Diamond road link were foiled, when members of the APNU+AFC joined with residents to restrict officials from executing the removal process.

This came after months of extensive work by the Central Housing and Planning Authority to ensure that those residents were relocated to developed housing schemes and were adequately compensated. The structures on the government’s reserve were eventually cleared and work on the road was allowed to continue.