Granger upsets business community with ‘Jackasses’ comment
APNU-AFC Presidential candidate David Granger has come under fire for comments made during his address to representatives of the business community on Tuesday at the Pegasus Hotel. The Opposition Leader was at the time speaking at the first of a two-part series of discussions being hosted by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) when he said "Guyana is a nation of Jaguars…the people want development; they want to break out; they want to get rich…but they are led by jackasses”.
The comment was met with disfavor by members of his audience, some of whom wondered as to who were the ‘jackasses’ and ‘jaguars’ being referred to.
Also addressing the issue was Senior Vice President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) Vishnu Doerga. “A lot of people looked at that statement and tried in their mind to put one and one together to determine who are the jackasses he was referring to. If you are to really create solutions that would benefit Guyana, you need to be mature and you need to be compromising to be willing to work together because no single party could really take this country forward,” Doerga said.
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