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Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

I believe in freedom of association and freedom of dissociation. I joined the PPP voluntarily in August 1969 and departed voluntarily in May 1992.

Mr Sextus Edwards has done the same with the AFC. I respect his decision.

sixtus-edwards_03

Sextus left AFC peacefully.....

and many others will leave

no one bother them.

 

Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham

Burnham was a Founder member of PPP and

the First Chairman of the PPP....

plus Godfather for Cheddi & Janet Jagan Only son....

 

No one cry when Odo leave PPP.....

he left PPP ....that's it...

 

why these PPP Supporters Crying here on GNI

like them want abee keep wake now.

fuh everybody who lef like Odo

Like them Cup Empty

and dem want lil tea and Biscuit...

 

FM
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Originally Posted by yuji22:

The AFC is the most shameless political party in Guyana's political history.

 

BEWARE OF THE CORRUPT AFC DAWGS.

yuji, you don't have a moral right to condemn AFC corruption when every decent citizen knows that the PPP regime's corruption stinks to high heaven.

Having said that, I honestly feel the AFC owes its members and supporters some explanation. Sextus Edwards is not the first to level criticism at AFC financial affairs. There's a connection between smoke and fire.

FM
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

The AFC is the most shameless political party in Guyana's political history.

 

BEWARE OF THE CORRUPT AFC DAWGS.

yuji, you don't have a moral right to condemn AFC corruption when every decent citizen knows that the PPP regime's corruption stinks to high heaven.

Having said that, I honestly feel the AFC owes its members and supporters some explanation. Sextus Edwards is not the first to level criticism at AFC financial affairs. There's a connection between smoke and fire.

Yep and it's called 'erb.

cain
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:
Originally Posted by yuji22:
Originally Posted by Shaitaan:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

“The middle ground is gone…” he advised. He also put this newspaper on notice that lots of people have already walked away from the AFC and are continuing to do so. Asked to clarify, Edwards said that he had reason to believe that more Executives were planning to resign over the coming weeks because the party was not adhering to its Constitution of core values. “There are lots of coverups taking place. Everyone wants family, sister, and brother to be in the party and hold positions. Lots of corruption, cronyism and nepotism are taking place”, he insisted.

 

Is how much money ayuh pay the AFC fuh coalesce wid de PNC?

 

Bhai

 

The AFC destroyed themselves. They are in an implosion mode.

 

You made an accurate political assessment of the blunder of the AFC and now this bombshell.

 

I wanna know who in the AFC tek buyout to do this. I cannot find any justification for this Coalition except enormous arrogance on the part of AFC or people who think dem moh smart than dem coolie voters.

 

They can't even hold onto the AFC Blacks like Sextus. What makes them think the Indians are gonna stick around either?

Moses and Ramjattan have a price and we are now seeing their true colours.

 

There are many decent folks in the AFC who were sold out by these two opportunists.

 

I was not a supporter of the AFC but deep down knew that they were keeping a watch over the coffers. Now we have two AFC politicians who sold out their supporters in hopes of drinking of Honey.

 

Politics is very dirty game.

 

Decent and respectable blacks are exposing corruption in the AFC and are leaving in disgust. 

 

The AFC is imploding and Moses and Ramjattan buttered their bread and are now taking shelter under the PNC tent until they can come up with another scheme to deceive Guyanese.

 

But Carib Bhai always describes the PNC's knife and fork policy and Ramjattan and Moses will face the heat. 

 

FM
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Originally Posted by Gilbakka:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

The AFC is the most shameless political party in Guyana's political history.

 

BEWARE OF THE CORRUPT AFC DAWGS.

yuji, you don't have a moral right to condemn AFC corruption when every decent citizen knows that the PPP regime's corruption stinks to high heaven.

Having said that, I honestly feel the AFC owes its members and supporters some explanation. Sextus Edwards is not the first to level criticism at AFC financial affairs. There's a connection between smoke and fire.

 

Spin Gil Spin

 

These revelations from an AFC Top member destroys AFC's credibility. They have none left.

 

The AFC's leadership is quite disgraceful.

 

It is quite shameful to see you defending corruption and nepotism in the AFC. I expected a lot better from a man with high standards.

 

 

FM
Originally Posted by yuji22:

AFC = Corruption Incarnate.

 

Shame on the AFC.

Look at this moron talking about corruption when he supportsthe PPP, the most corrupt party ever in Guyana's history.

Mars
Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud during his public resignation from the AFC yesterday
Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud during his public resignation from the AFC yesterday

Another AFC member quits – Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud quits AFC over coalition decision

DAYS after the Alliance For Change (AFC) General Secretary, Sixtus Edwards, resigned from the party, another member has publicly issued his resignation and has alleged that the recent decision to form a coalition with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was one made by a ‘gang of five’, without the authorisation of its membership.Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud, speaking at a press conference yesterday, vowed to do everything in his power to ensure the AFC does not come to power and has in fact now endorsed the People’s Progressive Party / Civic (PPP/C), the party, he said, for which he will now campaign.
Speaking at this Alberttown office, the attorney who deals primarily with immigration matters, further alleged falsification of the party’s financials.
He called on the party, primarily its leader Khemraj Ramjattan, to account for some $21M, unaccounted for in the 2012 report.

“The leader of the AFC has been rumoured saying many times that they spent over $115M on the election in 2011,” said Persaud.
He disclosed, however, that nowhere in the single page document that was presented to the Congress as its financial statement, does it account for $115M. The statement, as produced by Persaud, accounts for $93.8M and he called on Ramjtattan to explain “what happened to the difference ($21M).”

He said that at the Party’s most recent Congress held at St. Stanislaus College, no financials were presented as is required by the Party’s constitution and dissenting views were not invited.

Addressing the media conference yesterday, Persaud, who said he was on the party’s Candidates List at the 2011 Regional and General Elections, “announced to the general public and the Guyanese nation at large that I am no longer a member of the AFC and I have tendered my resignation.”

He said that among the reasons for his decision is the fact that the party departed from the principles on which it was founded in that it would never partner with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) nor the incumbent.

Aligning with APNU
“Recently the AFC has deceived members of the party by aligning with the APNU,” said Persaud, who argued further that the party executives were only out to look after themselves.

 Balwant Persuad’s AFC membership card [Photos by Delano Williams)

Balwant Persuad’s AFC membership card (Photos by Delano Williams)

This, he said, was evident in what was made public about the discussions in relation to who gets what position.
“The leaders of the AFC are just concerned in getting into Parliament and hold positions…during the coalition talks all they concerned with is positions for the big ones, they are only concerned with who should be Prime Minister, and who should be minister of this and that.”
According to Persaud, the executive members of the AFC are not in any way concerned with the members of the party and “they have deceived their members and the public because they now aligned with the APNU.”

In even more damning allegations against the Party’s leadership, Persaud told the news conference that “the AFC is being managed by a ‘gang of five’: Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, Nigel Hughes, Cathy Hughes and David Patterson.”

The disgruntled AFC member, who brandished his party card for media operatives, alleged too that the AFC leadership never consulted the party membership seeking authorisation to join the coalition.

NO CONSULTATIONS
“They have breached all of the principles of the party; no one was consulted,” said Persaud, who suggested that in addition to meetings, the decisions should have been put to the membership possibly in the form of an internal referendum.

“It is very dictatorial for them to do that,” argued Persaud, who went on to tell media operatives, “A few people decide on everything; ‘the gang-of-five’.”

According to Persaud, in addition to the problems he already highlighted, the party is also plagued by rigged internal elections and breaches of the party’s constitution which saw Nagamootoo being elevated to the post he contested in 2011.

The attorney pointed out that a member of the party would have to be a member of financial standing with the party for at least a year before becoming eligible to being elected to the party’s executive.

Nagamootoo and Rajendra Bissessar signed up with the Party a month before the last elections but were still made eligible for executive positions with Nagamootoo eventually securing a seat in Parliament.

Persaud was asked to weigh in on what obtained before, during and after the coalition talks with regard to the party’s executive and its communication with its membership, since Nagamootoo, during the AFC/APNU coalition announcement had spoken to the fact that the party membership was consulted and was in approval.

Persaud rebutted, declaring that, “you can’t go to a bottom house and talk with five or six persons and then come out and say all of dem (party membership) approve…that is not the way to do things in a well-run organisation.”

According to Persaud, “Nagamootoo can say anything! It doesn’t mean that he is speaking the truth, because he is a known liar.”

A visibly dismayed Persaud repeated, “They deceived their members by aligning themselves with the APNU; the core principle of the AFC is that they say they will never align with the PPP or PNC; that’s why people joined them; that’s why people supported them. Now that they have breached that principle, how can we trust these leaders? We cannot trust them to manage a country’s affairs.”

Ramjattan and Nagamootoo were labelled opportunists by Persaud, who surmised that the AFC was losing support, “and these two guys smell the rat and tricked APNU.”

Persaud related that in recent months the AFC leadership has been undertaking a number of outreaches across the country but the results were not enthusiastic and this led to the scheming with APNU to form a government and get back in Parliament.

“Members never approve this coalition…the supporters are not in agreement,” according to Persaud.
As it relates to Persaud and his political future, the attorney responded by saying, “I wouldn’t like to see they get into power because if they can victimize their own people in the party like Sixtus Edwards and others, if they get into power their main objective is to get revenge.”

Persaud told the news conference that the AFC leadership, particularly Nagamootoo and Ramjattan, were only looking to exact revenge against certain members of the PPP.

“They announce it publicly,” he said. “It’s not no secret that they will send a lot of people to jail… Now, I can’t associate with a Party who just want to get into power to take revenge; they like they want jail people without a Court the way they talking; or they will manufacture evidence.”

Asked if he would be throwing his weight behind another Party, Persaud’s initial reaction was to firstly ensure and do everything he could to keep the AFC out of power, “because I know they are deceitful people, especially Moses Nagamootoo.”

(By Gary Eleazar)

 

extracted from the Guyana Chronicle

FM
Originally Posted by Conscience:
Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud during his public resignation from the AFC yesterday
Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud during his public resignation from the AFC yesterday

Another AFC member quits – Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud quits AFC over coalition decision

DAYS after the Alliance For Change (AFC) General Secretary, Sixtus Edwards, resigned from the party, another member has publicly issued his resignation and has alleged that the recent decision to form a coalition with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) was one made by a ‘gang of five’, without the authorisation of its membership.Attorney-at-Law Balwant Persaud, speaking at a press conference yesterday, vowed to do everything in his power to ensure the AFC does not come to power and has in fact now endorsed the People’s Progressive Party / Civic (PPP/C), the party, he said, for which he will now campaign.
Speaking at this Alberttown office, the attorney who deals primarily with immigration matters, further alleged falsification of the party’s financials.
He called on the party, primarily its leader Khemraj Ramjattan, to account for some $21M, unaccounted for in the 2012 report.

“The leader of the AFC has been rumoured saying many times that they spent over $115M on the election in 2011,” said Persaud.
He disclosed, however, that nowhere in the single page document that was presented to the Congress as its financial statement, does it account for $115M. The statement, as produced by Persaud, accounts for $93.8M and he called on Ramjtattan to explain “what happened to the difference ($21M).”

He said that at the Party’s most recent Congress held at St. Stanislaus College, no financials were presented as is required by the Party’s constitution and dissenting views were not invited.

Addressing the media conference yesterday, Persaud, who said he was on the party’s Candidates List at the 2011 Regional and General Elections, “announced to the general public and the Guyanese nation at large that I am no longer a member of the AFC and I have tendered my resignation.”

He said that among the reasons for his decision is the fact that the party departed from the principles on which it was founded in that it would never partner with the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) nor the incumbent.

Aligning with APNU
“Recently the AFC has deceived members of the party by aligning with the APNU,” said Persaud, who argued further that the party executives were only out to look after themselves.

 Balwant Persuad’s AFC membership card [Photos by Delano Williams)

Balwant Persuad’s AFC membership card (Photos by Delano Williams)

This, he said, was evident in what was made public about the discussions in relation to who gets what position.
“The leaders of the AFC are just concerned in getting into Parliament and hold positions…during the coalition talks all they concerned with is positions for the big ones, they are only concerned with who should be Prime Minister, and who should be minister of this and that.”
According to Persaud, the executive members of the AFC are not in any way concerned with the members of the party and “they have deceived their members and the public because they now aligned with the APNU.”

In even more damning allegations against the Party’s leadership, Persaud told the news conference that “the AFC is being managed by a ‘gang of five’: Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, Nigel Hughes, Cathy Hughes and David Patterson.”

The disgruntled AFC member, who brandished his party card for media operatives, alleged too that the AFC leadership never consulted the party membership seeking authorisation to join the coalition.

NO CONSULTATIONS
“They have breached all of the principles of the party; no one was consulted,” said Persaud, who suggested that in addition to meetings, the decisions should have been put to the membership possibly in the form of an internal referendum.

“It is very dictatorial for them to do that,” argued Persaud, who went on to tell media operatives, “A few people decide on everything; ‘the gang-of-five’.”

According to Persaud, in addition to the problems he already highlighted, the party is also plagued by rigged internal elections and breaches of the party’s constitution which saw Nagamootoo being elevated to the post he contested in 2011.

The attorney pointed out that a member of the party would have to be a member of financial standing with the party for at least a year before becoming eligible to being elected to the party’s executive.

Nagamootoo and Rajendra Bissessar signed up with the Party a month before the last elections but were still made eligible for executive positions with Nagamootoo eventually securing a seat in Parliament.

Persaud was asked to weigh in on what obtained before, during and after the coalition talks with regard to the party’s executive and its communication with its membership, since Nagamootoo, during the AFC/APNU coalition announcement had spoken to the fact that the party membership was consulted and was in approval.

Persaud rebutted, declaring that, “you can’t go to a bottom house and talk with five or six persons and then come out and say all of dem (party membership) approve…that is not the way to do things in a well-run organisation.”

According to Persaud, “Nagamootoo can say anything! It doesn’t mean that he is speaking the truth, because he is a known liar.”

A visibly dismayed Persaud repeated, “They deceived their members by aligning themselves with the APNU; the core principle of the AFC is that they say they will never align with the PPP or PNC; that’s why people joined them; that’s why people supported them. Now that they have breached that principle, how can we trust these leaders? We cannot trust them to manage a country’s affairs.”

Ramjattan and Nagamootoo were labelled opportunists by Persaud, who surmised that the AFC was losing support, “and these two guys smell the rat and tricked APNU.”

Persaud related that in recent months the AFC leadership has been undertaking a number of outreaches across the country but the results were not enthusiastic and this led to the scheming with APNU to form a government and get back in Parliament.

“Members never approve this coalition…the supporters are not in agreement,” according to Persaud.
As it relates to Persaud and his political future, the attorney responded by saying, “I wouldn’t like to see they get into power because if they can victimize their own people in the party like Sixtus Edwards and others, if they get into power their main objective is to get revenge.”

Persaud told the news conference that the AFC leadership, particularly Nagamootoo and Ramjattan, were only looking to exact revenge against certain members of the PPP.

“They announce it publicly,” he said. “It’s not no secret that they will send a lot of people to jail… Now, I can’t associate with a Party who just want to get into power to take revenge; they like they want jail people without a Court the way they talking; or they will manufacture evidence.”

Asked if he would be throwing his weight behind another Party, Persaud’s initial reaction was to firstly ensure and do everything he could to keep the AFC out of power, “because I know they are deceitful people, especially Moses Nagamootoo.”

(By Gary Eleazar)

 

extracted from the Guyana Chronicle

 

The CORRUPT AFC is spinning out of control.

FM
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A judge on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada has granted a  15-year-old Guyanese  girl refugee status  following  a hearing on October 7, 2008  in Toronto.

According to a press release from  immigration consultant in Toronto, Balwant Persaud, who represented her,  it took the Board three months to reach a decision which was finally made on January 12, 2009.

According to the lawyer, the schoolgirl was gang raped and brutalized by three men with connections in high places in Guyana.

She was threatened not to report the matter to the police or it would endanger her and her family.

The immigration consultant said that he was successful in obtaining a visitor’s visa for the girl at the Canadian embassy in Trinidad and she travelled to Canada and filed a refugee claim. He added that he cited many cases  in Guyana that were similar to his client’s situation and which the government and police do nothing about.

Persaud said that numerous newspaper articles and real life situations were presented to the Immigration and Refugee Board to support the girl’s claim about the injustice in Guyana.

 

Gang-raped girl granted refugee status in Canada

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...ee-status-in-canada/

Mitwah

Canadian Immigration Consultant Balwant Persaud was yesterday morning taken into police custody for questioning in relation to his recent case involving the Canadian couple that successfully applied for refugee status in Canada.   He was, however, released from custody following the interrogation by the officers.

Immigration consultant Balwant Persaud arrested, questioned

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...arrested-questioned/

 

Mitwah

What happened to people's money ? Did it disappear in thin air ?

 

Quote:

 

"He said that at the Party’s most recent Congress held at St. Stanislaus College, no financials were presented as is required by the Party’s constitution and dissenting views were not invited."

 

Crooks will always remain crooks.

FM

Quote:

 

"According to Persaud, the executive members of the AFC are not in any way concerned with the members of the party and “they have deceived their members and the public because they now aligned with the APNU.”

FM

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