Never mind what he says… Granger is a carbon copy of Burnham

THE Revised List of Electors (RLE) is “dirty”, according to Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, the presidential candidate of the Alliance of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC).“That is a dirty list,” he said, speaking at a fund-raising event in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York, on Sunday.

Granger added that, “The list has suddenly gone up by a hundred thousand to 567,000. Keep your eyes open. We do not believe in that. How in three years in a country in which the population is falling the voters list has gone up by a hundred thousand?”
Numbers from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) indicated that the RLE includes the names of 570,786 eligible voters. The number of eligible voters in the November 2011 General and Regional Elections was 492,193.
DANGEROUS CONNOTATIONS
GECOM’s Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, expressed concern over the types of words used to describe the list.
“They should not be using words like padded or bloated, because the connotation is that we are not purposely increasing the list. We are working on reducing the number of people on the list, but taking people off the list is not easy,” he said.
Dr. Surujbally acknowledged that the names of persons who have migrated from Guyana, as well as persons who have died, are still included on the list.

granger still with his old nasty pnc politics

CONTRARY to the APNU+AFC’s Presidential Candidates’ claim that he has no intention of reverting to systems of the late President Forbes Burnham, his actions as Opposition Leader, as well as campaign promises and touted policies and initiatives all reflect the dictatorial style of the late Burnham.Last weekend, Granger sought to assure supporters at a New York meeting that “I am not Burnham, I am David Granger, Burnham died 30 years ago in 1985”. Nevertheless, Granger has kept Burnham’s legacy alive through the APNU’s current ideology and philosophy, to the extent that he seeks to reintroduce Burnham’s burdensome political system of a heavy government inclusive of three Vice Presidents, a Prime Minister and a President.

Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall has described the A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Alliance as a “love affair” that was forged out of convenience, and would not work.
Speaking last evening at a rally at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara, the Attorney General said the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), the controller of the coalition, the APNU, is not known to be democratic, and it might not be long before the AFC gets a rude awakening.
According to Nandlall, the PNC is haunted by its own past and has been trying desperately to ‘shake off’ its abysmally poor economic and human rights record in Government by trying to hide behind name changes.
He told a gathering of supporters that first the party changed from PNC to PNCR, but when that failed, it moved to PNCR-I Guyana, but that also flopped. But the PNC did not stop; it changed to APNU and it is now APNU+AFC.
Nandlall said the constant change of name of the party has not changed its character of being violent and destructive to achieve power by any means possible, contending that the fight at the elections is purely one between the PPP and the PNC.

THE sugar industry is currently in an economically volatile state. This is largely because of the PNC Government’s appropriation of billions of dollars from that industry to fund other state-run institutions (at that time) – including the bauxite industry, the joint services and para-military organisations, the Public Service, et cetera; and the EU price restructuring.
During that time of absolute corruption by state officials, those friendly to the PNC hierarchy were handsomely rewarded with large swaths of land, especially in the hinterland regions, as well as other state properties and immeasurable and unquantifiable benefits funded by the treasury.

Today, those so rewarded are eager to restore the PNC to the seat of power so that the goodies can continue to flow into their bottomless coffers, now depleted somewhat because the PNC largesse stopped abruptly post 1992 elections.
The fallacious pronouncements and prognostications of the ilk of Stanley Ming and Tony Vieira on any issue are therefore suspect, especially their analyses of the sugar industry and their denouncement of Government’s efforts to sustain and restore viability to that sector, which is a painful work in progress.

The PNC and its loyalists once destroyed every sector in Guyana’s social, infrastructural and productive systems and sent this nation’s economy plunging to subterranean levels. The PPP/C Government has circumnavigated those dungeons and have charted an unerring path to an escalating developmental paradigm – the trajectory which is unerringly pointed upwards for every sector.