Another AFC member quits

Director General of Guyana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper is the prime ministerial candidate for the incumbent People's Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) at the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections.

The announcement was made by President Donald Ramotar, with her next to his side, at the PPP's Headquarters, Freedom House, Robb Street.

Harper, 57, has worked in the Foreign Service for decades. She hails from Kitty, Greater Georgetown.

Harper succeeds outgoing Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds who has held that position since 1992 when the PPPC was voted into office for the first time in 28 years.

The opposition coalition’s prime ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo on Saturday poured cold water over the decision by the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) to select the Director General of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Elisabeth Harper as its prime ministerial candidate.

Nagamootoo believed that Harper’s unanimous selection was an attempt by the ruling party to repair its image heading into the May 11, 2015. “An attempt at this late hour is to embellish its slate. I believe it’s too little, too late,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.

Asked whether he believed that Harper's candidacy would contribute to a formidable challenge to the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC), he “I am not sure  what you mean by a formidable challenge. All I know is that the PPP is going to lose the elections badly.”

On the question of whether Harper,57, brings integrity to the PPPC’s slate, he reiterated that “they are trying to refurbish the slate. It is too little, too late. It will not save the PPP.”

only problem i have with harper is that she from kitty