Shortly after the APNU-AFC government tookoffice, there were whispers of the PPP deliberately attempting to undermine the negotiations with ExxonMobil. It was whispered that the PPP was telling ExxonMobil officials that a PPP Government would accept 1% royalty.
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Vote like your life depends on it, because it just might
After the 2002 jailbreak, and subsequent crime spree, the PPP entered into an alliance with Drug Lords and criminals to hunt and kill young Guyanese. A Minister of the government imported the equipment the Drug Lords used for tracking their preys. When the dust settled over 400 young Guyanese were dead.
Take up the Lawrence Challenge: Be vigilant
In 2015, when faced with defeat at the polls, the PPP introduced a number of fake Statement of Polls (SOPs) into the system. They demanded recount at several polling places, even thought their polling agents signed the SOPs attesting to the accuracy of the results. Imagine the scenario if those boxes were tampered with after the count, and the recount differed from the SOPs.
A vote for the PPP is like playing with fire
The scary thing about PPP corruption is that they do not hide to do it, they do it in plain sight and make it official. The oil blocks giveaway, Pradoville, and GPC sole-sourcing are examples of the PPP sitting in cabinet and giving the stamp of approval to what would otherwise be considered corrupt activities. Imagine what they could do with the oil revenue.
If Skeldon Factory doesn’t work sugar is dead – Jagdeo
Like in Equatorial Guinea, this US$200M boutique project was just to create the opportunity for kickbacks. Sugar workers would have been better off if this US$200M was invested in training of workers for transition out of the industry, start-up loans for businesses, and opening of new lands near existing estates. However, these programs which would have been benefiting workers directly was not as conducive for corruption like the shining white elephant at Skeldon.
The PNCR asked PPP government to act on climate change, but they refused
It was against this background the PNCR went to parliament and asked the PPP Government to establish a Climate Change Commission. The PPP rejected the request. Instead, the PPP advanced the most perplexing and absurd argument that, “the large countries are to be blamed and they must provide financing for small countries to prepare for climate change.”
The ball is now in Jagdeo’s court.
Jagdeo now finds himself in the situation where he is protesting for elections, but is now refusing to do what is necessary for the elections to be held; returning to Parliament. Soon sympathy for his cause will begin to wane, and he will lack the moral platform to appeal to the donor community.
Britain cannot tell us what to do: Rohee
Former PPP Foreign Affairs Minister, Clemente Rohee, declared that the government didn’t have to listen to Britain. He said, “some members of the diplomatic community are becoming more and more involved in our internal affairs especially when it comes to holding of elections… ” Rohee then asserted that it is normal for members of the diplomatic community to make these statements, but it is up to the government to determine how to respond
The Social Coup D’etat is dead, and the PPP is unraveling
The political tomfoolery of putting your presidential candidate to behave like a hooligan and thug is an indication of sheer panic. To have him in the forefront of an activity that threatened violence against the sitting president and a minister of the government is asinine. Why reveal your candidate as a mere hooligan and thug?
These gunmen are brazen and bareface, but GECOM saying elections will be in March 2020.
It is like a group of gunmen marking a victim. They victim knows they want to rob her, and they know that she knows, but they don’t care. They attempting to use the law as cover. They run to court to complain that she parked where she should not park. Their sidekicks shouting at her to move, she in the wrong place. All in an effort to get her to move along to a location where they could pounce and strip her off her possessions and dignity.