Dear Editor
RICKFORD Burke should know that business-tycoon Brian Tiwarie is his own man. Brian does not need government funds to decorate a bus and a truck with PPP/C colours during this election cycle. His support for a second term for President Mohamed Irfaan Ali is his free choice and his democratic right.

Burke has conveniently forgotten that the same Brian Tiwarie supported the APNU+AFC five years ago. Ironically, the same bus was used in the 2015 elections. Mr Tiwarie wanted to give a chance to the PNC-led APNU+AFC. But the APNU+AFC made a mess of Guyana. Instead of moving the country forward, they left a trail of corruption and broken promises behind.
Two hundred taxes were placed on the backs of families and businesses. They took away the Because We Care cash grant from 200,000 children. They took away the one-month tax-free bonus from the Disciplined Services.

They levied huge fees on farmers and miners. They fired 7,000 sugar workers and almost destroyed the bauxite industry. They fired 2,000 CSOs from the Amerindian communities. The destruction, including the mismanagement of COVID, was endless. In the meantime, corruption was rampant.
The PPP/C took office and removed all the taxes. They restored the Because We Care cash grant, and increased it from $10,000 to $50,000. They restored benefits to pensioners, farmers, miners, the Disciplined Services and removed the 200 PNC/APNU taxes.

Under the PPP/C, Guyana, in the words of Bill Clinton, has become a construction zone, with physical infrastructure – roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, energy supply, among others, moving full-speed forward.

Editor, let me end by saying that while Burke is scribbling irrelevant nonsense in New York, Brian Tiwarie is making an immense contribution to building a better Guyana.
He has done so for decades in the areas of construction, sea defence, shipping, quarrying, farming, security, and aviation. And today, he has freely and openly embraced the PPP/C because of its record in office, its policies, and programmes.
Yours truly,
Alvin Hamilton