Dear Editor,
I write in response to the half-truths and plain, deceitful statements made by no other than the PNC’s Chairman Shurwayne Holder at a public meeting at Dartmouth, Essequibo Coast, recently and was prominently reported by Demerara Waves.
According to Holder, the PPP/C has now extended the boundary of Mabaruma to include an Amerindian community “so that they could win that area.”
The fact of the matter is that the PPP/C won Mabaruma in 2018 by an impressive 1,006 votes to APNU’s 653 without the addition of any Amerindian community at the time. (See GECOM results Brother Holder).

Holder went on to predict that APNU will win “Essequibo Coast Councils in Queenstown, Good Hope and Dartmouth.”
Again, these are not councils and for the record the PPP/C in 2018 won the Aberdeen/Zorg-en-Vlugt District Council, of which Queenstown is a part, by a 1,004 to 478 margin.

It did the same in the Good Hope-Pomona District Council by a whopping 1,681 to APUN’s 301 in 2018. Further, for the Evergreen/Paradise District Council of which Dartmouth is a part, the PPP/C polled 909 votes to APNU’s 540. (GECOM 2018 results).
Winning a couple of seats here and there is a far cry from the overall winning of Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.
It is time Demerara Waves concedes that PPP/C does not need to do any “boundary gerrymandering” in order to make significant inroads into APNU’s traditional strongholds. It is as plain as daylight.
Sincerely,
Herman Persaud.