Dear Editor,
I LISTENED to the APNU/AFC meeting on Saturday afternoon, which was held at the Old Palm Tree Cinema Area on Burnham Drive. Well if that is the presentation of the APNU/AFC which mismanaged Guyana during the 2015 to 2020 period and going around the country and trying to mislead people, let them think again.

Imagine your first priority when you got in office in 2015 without any performance was to raise your salaries over 50 per cent, secondly to close down the sugar industry and send over 7,000 sugar workers on the breadline, dismiss almost 2,000 Amerindian CSOs, cause the call centre to shut down in Linden putting over 100 young Lindeners out of a job, cause the Rusal Bauxite to close down, sending over 1,200 workers packing, cause over 30,000 persons, overall, to lose their jobs during its tenure in office, and impose over 200 taxes on the Guyanese people.

It was your coalition party which took away the children’s cash grant, it was your coalition party which disrespected the Constitution of Guyana, first by electing Retired Justice Patterson as chair of GECOM; second, failed to adhere to the no-confidence motion, based on the constitutional requirement, and was sitting in government illegally, and made several attempts to steal the 2020 elections in front of the eyes of the world.

Now fetching a small crowd of your supporters from Georgetown and coming to Linden to talk a bundle of trash. All PNC camp could do is criticise Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and President Irfaan Ali and to spread race hate, and continue trying to mislead and divide our people, while the President is working hard to bring our people together for the best interest for Guyana.

Let me set the record straight, which I believe all should know this. It was the vision and skillfulness of President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo that moved this country from being the poorest country in this hemisphere to a middle-income country.

Here again it is the excellent and transformative leadership by our beloved President Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali and Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo and the cabinet that is transforming the nation and driving development that is taking place in our country, making it the fastest growing economy in the world.

Just Last week, the Secretary of State of the USA, the greatest economy in world, congratulated Dr. Ali for his outstanding leadership.

Look at what the PNC/APNU/AFC leader gone to, imagine Aubrey Norton now the Leader of the opposition, was not be considered for a PS position much less a ministerial position under President Burnham, President Hoyte and even under President Granger and now wants to be President of this country.

He has neither haven’t shown nor demonstrated leadership qualities and he does not have the majority support of the Guyanese people to become President. Just imagine you cannot understand the OLE, and trying to mislead your supporters that the list is bloated.

Let me again educate you Mr. Norton, of what Dr. Jagdeo was telling you. He was saying that the Official List of Electors have on it all Guyanese who are qualified to vote, which included persons who are living overseas who are registered under GECOM but they can only vote in Guyana.

“Dead people cannot vote.” Mr. Norton, your supporters know very well that your party is losing support to the PPP and that the APNU/AFC would not win the 2025 Elections. Everyday people are approaching us wanting to join the PPP; this we welcome.

Instead of you supporting Dr. Ali in working towards bringing our people together, you and your colleagues are trying to divide Guyanese, which is not good for Guyana at this time or no time.

The records would show that Afro-Guyanese, Amerindian and all Guyanese are far better off under a PPP/C Administration. What did APNU/AFC do for the teachers when they were in office?

“Nothing”, now suddenly you all so love our teachers. Since the PPP/C returned to government the teachers are better off, and I know that teachers and other workers will get better benefits from this government, So, I urge the teachers don’t be misled by the APNU/AFC.
Thank you,
Andrew Forsythe