ASSAKATA resident 77-year-old Ignatius Joseph has assured the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that he would never vote for the APNU/AFC coalition.He said, moreover, that he is confident his community, located some 25 miles 1, Barima/Waini, will vote solidly for the PPP/C on May 11 at the general and regional elections.

The pensioner, a former toshao and member of the United Force party in the sixties, said the PPP/C is a party that cares for the people. He said Assakata has been transformed into a bright and thriving village under the PPP/C, and the Government has constructed a new primary school so students can pursue their education there.

He said the village has a health centre staffed with trained health workers from the village, and residents are getting excellent health care, which shows that the Government has its people at heart.

He said the community also has its own tractor and trailer, which were presented by Government to help villagers in the development of their community.

The pensioner said the Government must be commended for all that it has done for the people, and he called on villagers to support the PPP/C at the upcoming elections, so development can continue.

Toshao Errol Charles said he is very thankful to the Government for the investments that were made in his community over the past 22 years.

Mr. Charles said development is evident in his community, and he assured that neither the APNU nor the AFC would be entertained in his community with their lies.

He said his community is fully backing the PPP/C, and would fully support the party on elections day because progress must continue.

Senior PPP party representative and Chairman of Region 2, Mr Parmanand Persaud, in an address to the community, said residents now have access to clean, potable water through the solar-powered well that was set up by Government. Mr Persaud said that under the PNC’s 28-year dictatorship rule, the community suffered because residents had to drink water from the creek, because there was no well. Under the PPP/C Government, residents now have access to solar-powered electricity in their homes at Assakata, and there is no use for the famous PNC” jumbie” bottle lamps anymore.

Mr Persaud said the PNC, now renamed APNU, has destroyed the country, and he called on residents to reject the APNU/AFC coalition. He said the AFC is looking for votes to give to the APNU to fight the PPP/C at the general and regional elections on May 11.

PPP/C representative in the Moruca Sub District of Region 1, Mr Steve Stanley, told residents in a blistering attack against the PNC [APNU] and AFC that the APNU is the same old PNC that destroyed the country in its 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Calling on residents to reject the APNU/AFC coalition, Stanley said the same PNC which had banned basic food items, including wheat flour, sardines, potatoes, split peas and bread, causing great suffering to Guyanese, is looking for power to rule Guyana again.

He warned residents to beware of the Opposition, and vote solidly for the PPP/C on elections day, so progress can continue.

(Rajendra Prabhulall)

extracted from the Guyana Chronicle