Councie the only thing Ramotar has an interest in is enabling his ministers to thief tax payers money fuh put sperm in dem wife.

Dem should get kwame to donate some sperm fuh dem low breed wah yuh seh?

The President has thrown cold water on the AFC, by proroguing parliament, the A.F.C appears to be too ashamed to face their constituents.

The A.F.C has now been declared "dead meat" 

The president destroyed the PPP sacred victimization narrative of the Brits suspending parliament just to spite them. Ramotar learnt well from the British and like them he bears the stain of an opportunistic power hungry quack

Guh leh kwame rub yuh back wid some dead meat.

The Alliance For Change continues to note the flurry of public statements attributed to President Donald Ramotar on his desire for “Dialogue” with the opposition.

Most recently in his press conference of Friday November 14, 2014 he declared “Dialogue is the preferred way to go.” 

The AFC notes with alarm that the President now clearly believes the political rhetoric and propaganda he has spewed for most of this year and in the process has either forgotten or has lost touch with reality. 

The Alliance For Change will therefore refresh the President’s memory as he has clearly forgotten that the last time he extended an invitation to the parliamentary opposition to meet at a tripartite level was on February 26, 2014. 

Nearly nine months have passed and in that time we Guyanese have swam in a sea of conflict and confrontation which has plagued President Ramotar’s administration, during which time his government has displayed no attempt to engage the majority parliamentary opposition in dialogue.

Public records will show that since February 2014 President Ramotar has placed emphasis on meeting key private sector organisations and stakeholder groups on a range of contentious issues ranging from passage of the anti money laundering legislation to the current constitutional crisis.

At no point in time was the joint parliamentary opposition invited to participate in talks of any kind!

At the end of June 2014, the AFC in correspondence to the President laid out its 10-point list of areas of concern.

This included demands for the upholding of the non-negotiable provisions of Guyana’s constitution, namely the establishment of the public procurement commission, the local government commission, and the human rights commission, the holding of local government election after an absence of more than two decades. The appointment of opposition members to state boards, the halting of illegal spending and the holding of “meaningful tripartite talks” to reach consensus on a security reform strategy and job creation opportunities for unemployed youth was raised amongst other things.

On July 17, 2014 the AFC again wrote the President highlighting the Party’s deep concern over the unauthorized and unconstitutional withdrawals from the consolidated fund by the Minister of Finance.

This we highlighted was in direct contravention to Article 217 of the Guyana constitution and section 16 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.

The AFC on that occasion signaled its intention under article 106 (6) of the constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to lay a motion of No Confidence against the Ramotar government as no other option appeared in sight.

This motion was eventually laid on August 10, 2014 with no engagement during the more than three-month period of parliamentary recess.

The Alliance For Change therefore remains surprised at Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon’s recent statement that the “PPP-C went the extra mile”.

This and the President’s ramblings this last week can only be viewed with the skepticism it deserves.

After all Mr. President –

your actions speak louder than your words.

The Alliance For Change

reminds private sector groups,

stakeholders and

civil society of these facts.

The A.F.C is now desperately trying to do the impossible....attempting to distant itself from A.P.N.U

Grasping at straws....yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.....

So if the AFC is bankrupt, then please call the elections and catch them on the hop and win the elections nuh PPP?  JOKERs.

Race baiting again?  Don't you understand that there are no longer enough Indian votes left in Guyana to get 50.1% based on the Indian vote alone.

When you play that race card you anger and terrify blacks and guarantee an APNU turn out.  Didn't you understand this from 2011?

In 2006 the PPP got 184k votes, the PNC/R got 114k and the other parties combined got 39k.

In 2011 the PPP saw their votes decline by 17k, APNU receiving 26k more, and the AFC received 7k more, these votes being the net result of the increased in votes received in PPP strongholds offsetting votes lost in PNC strongholds. And this wasn't because they liked Granger as many thought he was too soft and boring, and weren't sure that he had it in him to confront the PPP.

Only 5k more voters turned out, this being ENTIRELY due to increase turn out by the PNC base!

The ONLY party which saw a net increase in votes from ITS OWN BASE was APNU!  Why?  PPP race baiting creating racial paranoia among Africans and African identified mixed voters.

So PPP continue to race bait.  You are HELPING APNU!

The PPP is afraid to.  Rural Indians might be afraid to show up at AFC rallies, fearing intimidation by PPP hooligans.  The problem is that neither the PPP or the AFC really then can gauge their standing within this community.

Here is the deal.  The AFC has little to lose.  They are already a small party, and might just remain small.

It is the PPP which will see its position as a MINORITY gov't scorned by most Guyanese being concretized.  There also exists a remote probability that a combination of low turn out in PPP strongholds and AFC making more inroads might lead to APNU squeaking in.

AFC losing ground in Berbice

Region Six Chairman David Armogan

– supporters concerned over “coziness” with APNU

 

BY MICHAEL YOUNGE AND ANDREW CARMICHAEL

 

Scores of Alliance for Change (AFC) supporters in Regions Five (Mahaica-Berbice) and Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) have expressed great uneasiness and concern over the ‘cozy’ relationship between their party and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) with many saying they feel betrayed and duped.

A large portion of the current AFC members interviewed by Guyana Times in the two administrative regions were former supporters of the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) party.

They said that it is unfortunate that the AFC is moving closer to forming a pre-election coalition with the APNU which is essentially the same People’s National Congress (PNC).

PPP/C Executive Member in Berbice, Fizal Jaffarally

Others could not believe that the AFC was misusing the votes they had cast at the last elections to join an alliance with the main Opposition party which continues to support the dictatorial and hardliner economic and social policies of the Burnham and Hoyte regime.

Mark David told this publication that the party has not lived up to his expectations. He said, “they have joined with the Opposition and have not supported our votes.”

Fifty-two-year-old Parbattie Rampersaud appeared very frustrated when she was interviewed by this newspaper.

“I made a bad choice. I should have never voted for Moses or Ramayya. They let me down with all of the stupidness taking place in the AFC and at Parliament. I want development not confusion. They can’t come back to our village, so they sending different people to calm us down”, she remarked.

Another resident of Region Five, Mark Samaroo, a labourer, explained that he is disappointed with the decisions taken by his party leaders, Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo.

AFC Central Executive Member Rohan Jaggiswar

“We never voted for them to support the PNC or APNU. They promised they were different and would force the PPP/C to give us better wages. They promised to support things that would see us not having to struggle every day, but they fool we up real good”, he stated.

A large portion of other residents interviewed explained that they are still waiting to see the game plan being followed by the AFC. For the most part, they are disappointed with the posture of their leaders.

“The AFC did a number on us and now we feel foolish. I made all my family members vote for them. Not again. They not a vote from us and lots of neigbours at Whim, Tain and Port Mourant feel so”, the man said.

 

AFC’s denial

When contacted, AFC’s Central Executive Member Rohan Jaggiswar denied that his party was losing ground in the Berbice area. He insisted that people were still very much few up with the two larger parties that have parliamentary seats.

He denied that there was any collaboration between the AFC and APNU. “The AFC will not join the APNU at the poll. If we win, we will form a broad based government”, he remarked.

Jaggiswar made this comment even though his fellow Executives in Georgetown have announced their decision to join the APNU’s broad coalition and fight what they referred to as the “dictatorial rule in Guyana”.

The Geogetown-based executives have also joined the APNU’s platform to vent their frustration against the President’s decision to prorogue Parliament as opposed to doing so independently.

There have also been several high-level meetings between the two parties aimed at forming a strong front to unseat the PPP/C while the APNU continues to appeal to the AFC to consider a permanent coalition.

Despite this, Jaggiswar says the AFC is using a strategy but is not in partnership with APNU. “Sometimes you have to use political tactics for strategic objectives”, he explained.

 

PPP/C confident

But PPP/C Parliamentarian and Executive Member in Berbice, Fizal Jaffarally confirmed that several persons who either did not vote for his party out of frustration or crossed the floor to the AFC are returning in their numbers.

He admitted that the PPP/C had lost a small amount of votes to the AFC because of the populace’s dissatisfaction with certain developments.

“Because of the propaganda peddled by the AFC they were able to mislead a number of PPP/C supporters who fell for the trap, particularly in the sugar belt area”, he said.

Jaffarally opined that the PPP/C has learnt its lesson, and is leaving no stone unturned in its effort to regain lost ground.

According to him, there are about four party political meetings held daily in Region Six.

“Prime Minister Samuel Hinds in Region Six more that once every week to hold meetings and the President is in the region almost every week to meet with people”, he related.

He noted that many of the meetings are being held with persons who may have voted for the AFC at the last elections.

“The indication that we are getting is that persons now have a change of heart. People have expressed regret. People have said they are disappointed with the AFC. They thought that it was an independent political party. This is mainly because they are now seeing the connection and the collaboration between the AFC and the APNU particularly when it comes to issues of the national assembly”, he opined.

Meanwhile, Region Six Chairman David Armogan, in an invited comment on the issue, said the PPP/C party had commenced a process to repair its grassroots support since 2011.

He said there are regular meetings throughout the region. “Especially in the sugar belt areas like Tain, Port Mourant and Canje. What our supporters are now saying is that the AFC had made empty promises to them like the promise of a 20 per cent wage increase.”

Armogan added that, “They are sorry now because they were all empty promises made by the AFC before the last election. Some of them are saying that they did not expect that the AFC would have teamed up with the APNU”.

He said more work was also being done in Opposition support areas and strongholds.

The PPP/C has constantly said the missteps and confusion in the AFC as well as its betrayal of Guyanese at the last elections will result in it regaining its majority in the National Assembly.

 

extracted from the Guyana Times

PPP= Panic! Panic! Panic!

If the AFC losing grounds, why the PPP scared to call elections or face the vote on the MONC?

Spinmeister's kranackle and gytimes articles have to

be taken with a grain of salt.

The PPP is justifiably scared about unrest in its most loyal stronghold, and is now defending itself.

Is the AFC resting on its laurels in the meantime while the PPP engages in scare tactics and race baiting?  Or are they meeting the people and telling them their side of the story.

One would think that the AFC and APNU would use this period of absence from parliament to begin to galvanize their vote.  As usual they don't.  While APNU has its race vote which will be mobilized every time the PPP plays its own race card, the AFC doesn't have this.

The A.F.C is a "dead meat" political gathering.

All the AFC need is the balance of power...