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For Immediate Release to All Media Houses
December 13, 2011
Georgetown, Guyana
PRESS RELEASE: APNU/AFC MEETING, Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Representatives of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC) met again yesterday to continue the exploratory process of a creating a sustainable framework for joint engagement in the National Assembly, and the shaping of a common agenda that takes into account the needs of the Guyanese people, their expectations, and the Parties’ commitments made during the just concluded campaign.
Most importantly, the representatives discussed a wide range of issues that address governance, and the economic wellbeing of the state and its citizens. These included wide-ranging parliamentary reforms leading to a strong and participatory National Assembly, support for the strengthening of the rule of law, the lowering of the Value Added Tax, and increasing public service wages, among the most urgent. Increases in Old Age Pension, increase of public sector wages and a re-examination of the Presidents’ Pension package were also listed for review. Continue reading
By Ewalt (Waltie) Ainsworth 12-10- 2011
While the Red Thread women in Guyana are marching, protesting, demanding shared governance and a halt to the shooting of their men and children, the other white meat, Indo Guyanese, are disentangling from their other ethnic counterparts in North America. This is direct fallout from the alleged falsified accounting and rigging of the elections. The lines that divide are visible, pronounced, vexing and immediate.
The examples are varied and various and are also happening in the Regions on a smaller but manageable scale. One of Victoria’s most prominent families, a husband and wife team of medical practitioners, have been able to overcome their differences. Surely, their overseas partners should take a leaf out of their book. The husband, Dr. Cummings, was a candidate for the affected PPP while his wife, Karen, also a doctor, was a candidate for the afflicted APNU. The children hanged TUF: (The United Force). You cannot beat that in a month of Sundays. Continue reading
