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General Secretary of the PPP/C Bharrat Jagdeo address supporters at the Albion rally. Onstage are the party's Presidential and Prime Ministerial Candidate among other party members.

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) on Sunday took its rally to Albion, Corentyne Berbice where it had a massive turnout. The rally was described as the biggest ever held in that county where thousands were affected when the current government closed the Skeldon and Rose Hall sugar estates.

The residents all flocked the venue to hear of the PPP/C’s plans to reopen the estates if re-elected to office come March 02, 2020.

The party has promised to reopen the estates and residents are hoping they will keep this promise.

“I think they (sugar estates) can be reopened and those people can get jobs….at present now in Guyana, there is no good for the people. We need change and these change will bring good for each and every Guyanese,” one resident told the News Room.

The PPP/C gets the most votes from Region Six when compared to others, and the thousands who gathered at Albion on Sunday showed that this region which once got weary of the party and voted – more 10, 000 of them in 2011 for the Alliance for Change – are eager to return.

“We want a better future for all of Guyana and the PPP/C is the best party for the country,” one woman said.

The party’s Presidential Candidate, Irfaan Ali, like other leaders at Sunday’s rally, played on the issue bothering those gathered. “This Government placed you and many Guyanese on the breadline, they placed your families into hardships and they created disaster for many families, especially here in Region Six,” he noted.

The rally was held a short distance away from, the home of the party’s founder and leader Dr Cheddi Jagan who grew up in Port Mourant.

On the platform, Cheddi Jagan’s “man of the people” image was contrasted with that of the current, President David Granger by PPP executive Dr Vindhya Persaud, who referred to the President’s recent decision to use a helicopter to attend one of his party’s rally at Hopetown, West Coast Berbice.

“When women are not able to find jobs, provide for their homes when men are on the breadline and thinking of how they can take care of their families, when in addition to all of that they’re living in fear, the President flies down in a helicopter, is that right? I think he has lost touch with reality,” she said in her speech.

The PPP is eager to use the shutting of two sugar estates to trump up its case for re-election.

The Skeldon Sugar estate – the most expensive infrastructure project to be undertaken in the country, under then President Bharrat Jagdeo, is now closed. It was hailed as the boon for the success of the sugar industry, but it never fulfilled its potential, and though the PPP tried to keep it going and maintain jobs, the current government decided it was too costly to keep going.

The estate at Rose Hall too was shut down, sending thousands home. It has not been easy for Berbicians.

“Now we out of jobs, we like fish out of water now because they (Government) close down the estates; we studying them people them who lose them job, 7000 of them…I hope everything [the party] says, come through, whatever they promised,” one supporter said.

Another added that “at this end of the country, you don’t have anything to do other than the sugar estates; people don’t have work. I used to work at the factory as private contractor, since it close, we don’t have any work, thousands of acres of land left…we can’t get work and thousands of people they don’t have nothing to do than the estate work.”

Yet another resident told the News Room that “…people are suffering and continue to suffer. I myself can’t afford to send my child to UG…they have to open the sugar estate.”

Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has admitted that the plan is not financially viable but he argued that it is economically feasible, arguing that the benefits to the people and communities will far outweigh this.

On Sunday, he told the crowd “think about those mothers, the kids who had to come out to school, who can’t eat…”

If there is any fear in the PPP of the support from Berbice, it is of the migration of many of those who lost jobs in the sugar industry. Their vote is crucial for the PPP come March 2.

“Call every one of your relatives back. Call them abroad and say come back home and vote, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, it is freedom at stake here,” Jagdeo urged.

The PPP is not just courting those votes. With its list of candidates, it is hoping to get cross-over votes, and in its Prime Ministerial Candidate, former army chief Brigadier Mark Phillips, it would be hoping it can.

“They used to call me ‘Super’ in the GDF, that’s my war name so I am taking back my war name, I am the ‘Super’ for the PPP/C,” he said onstage on Sunday.

(Written by Bibi Khatoon and Neil Marks)

https://newsroom.gy/2020/01/13...-ppp-c-albion-rally/

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Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

He had an afternoon snooze  and jump up wid bubu in he eyes.

FM
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Chandrowtie Persaud said that she has been travelling since 10:00h from the West Coast of Demerara just to hear from her leaders. She said that she is confident of a PPP/C victory noting that Ali is the best man to lead Guyana forward.

“I am happy with how the party is campaigning and I travelled here just to hear them tell us why we should vote for them. I already made up my mind and I am ready for elections,” she said.

 

FM

Lecturer at the University of Guyana’s Berbice Campus, Dr Garyson Halley called on party supporters to join hands and ensure that the Granger-led Administration is removed come March.
Dr Halley, who is also a candidate on the party’s National Top-up List, said he was grateful for the programmes implemented by the PPP which allowed him to become a doctor.
Speaking of the challenges being faced in the region as a result of the closure of the two sugar estates – Rose Hall and Skeldon – which has left more than 4000 jobless, Dr Halley pointed out that many children are feeling the pain their parents felt.

 

FM
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

FM

PPP has momentum. Coalition had planned a blitzkrieg in January. I think PPP blitzing them.  But don’t be fooled, lots of time still to go so they can regain their balance and take the fight to the PPP.

FM

PNC is sloppy and has lost the big guns and support base which propelled them the last time around. Granger messed up by destroying the goodwill. It ain't coming back. Many see him as dictatorial and untrustworthy.

The youth support has shifted towards PPP this time around. They quickly realized that Granger and the AFC conned them the last time around.

PNC will now have to come up with another election campaign plan but they lack vision and a record to stand on. Granger is not an inspirational leader and as I listened to his launch speech, I realized that Jagdeo and Ali will chew him up and spit him out real fast.

In fact, he sounded dull and dumb.

FM
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Sean posted:

PNC is sloppy and has lost the big guns and support base which propelled them the last time around. Granger messed up by destroying the goodwill. It ain't coming back. Many see him as dictatorial and untrustworthy.

The youth support has shifted towards PPP this time around. They quickly realized that Granger and the AFC conned them the last time around.

PNC will now have to come up with another election campaign plan but they lack vision and a record to stand on. Granger is not an inspirational leader and as I listened to his launch speech, I realized that Jagdeo and Ali will chew him up and spit him out real fast.

In fact, he sounded dull and dumb.

You people are cockeyed...why you dont post coalition rally...yall got Berbice...watch what happen in Linden...a perfect GREEN and YELLOW storm coming.

V
VishMahabir posted:
Sean posted:

PNC is sloppy and has lost the big guns and support base which propelled them the last time around. Granger messed up by destroying the goodwill. It ain't coming back. Many see him as dictatorial and untrustworthy.

The youth support has shifted towards PPP this time around. They quickly realized that Granger and the AFC conned them the last time around.

PNC will now have to come up with another election campaign plan but they lack vision and a record to stand on. Granger is not an inspirational leader and as I listened to his launch speech, I realized that Jagdeo and Ali will chew him up and spit him out real fast.

In fact, he sounded dull and dumb.

You people are cockeyed...why you dont post coalition rally...yall got Berbice...watch what happen in Linden...a perfect GREEN and YELLOW storm coming.

Comrade Vish, Please vomit that green and yellow storm elsewhere. 

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Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Django
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

I saw on FB.  Not as dense. 

FM
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Mr Moderatar, the man who claimed to be balance and fair, why don’t you publish both parties and let us be the judge. 

Very important, we have to approve PPPC pictures, knowing your history on this forum. 

Django, is it true you getting some good curse at your old s k u n t on Facebook. 

FM
Baseman posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

I saw on FB.  Not as dense. 

Banna don't joke.

Django
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Mr Moderatar, the man who claimed to be balance and fair, why don’t you publish both parties and let us be the judge.

Very important, we have to approve PPPC pictures, knowing your history on this forum.

Django, is it true you getting some good curse at your old s k u n t on Facebook. 

You can post the pictures if you want to , it can be placed side by side .I have no intention at the moment.

The frivolous accusation by you ,of my history on this forum 18+ yrs ,doesn't hold water. My commentaries made on political figures are done after looking at the facts of their actions.

Quit the bullshit and stop bitching ,about approval to post pictures of PPP/C election events ,where it was barred ?  lay off Django for awhile ,you are sounding more disingenuous.

Also you have my permission to post on GNI forum ,the curse out to Django on FB.

Django
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 All the big guns, PPP and PNC could fizz out. March 2, 2020 is a long way off. They both came out campaigning in massive force. What then after these large rallies, the ppl would have to be continued entertained. An opportunity for the small parties to have their views heard. Hope dey pick up on that.

S
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Mr Moderatar, the man who claimed to be balance and fair, why don’t you publish both parties and let us be the judge.

Very important, we have to approve PPPC pictures, knowing your history on this forum.

Django, is it true you getting some good curse at your old s k u n t on Facebook. 

You can post the pictures if you want to , it can be placed side by side .I have no intention at the moment.

The frivolous accusation by you ,of my history on this forum 18+ yrs ,doesn't hold water. My commentaries made on political figures are done after looking at the facts of their actions.

Quit the bullshit and stop bitching ,about approval to post pictures of PPP/C election events ,where it was barred ?  lay off Django for awhile ,you are sounding more disingenuous.

Also you have my permission to post on GNI forum ,the curse out to Django on FB.

Banna you have no sense of humour. You need to get to a strip joint and blow out some steam ... 

FM
seignet posted:

 All the big guns, PPP and PNC could fizz out. March 2, 2020 is a long way off. They both came out campaigning in massive force. What then after these large rallies, the ppl would have to be continued entertained. An opportunity for the small parties to have their views heard. Hope dey pick up on that.

These big rallies get the blood pumping... then you have the village rallies.. election is only 47 days away. Usually the last big rally is at Good Hope ECD. 

FM
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Mr Moderatar, the man who claimed to be balance and fair, why don’t you publish both parties and let us be the judge.

Very important, we have to approve PPPC pictures, knowing your history on this forum.

Django, is it true you getting some good curse at your old s k u n t on Facebook. 

You can post the pictures if you want to , it can be placed side by side .I have no intention at the moment.

The frivolous accusation by you ,of my history on this forum 18+ yrs ,doesn't hold water. My commentaries made on political figures are done after looking at the facts of their actions.

Quit the bullshit and stop bitching ,about approval to post pictures of PPP/C election events ,where it was barred ?  lay off Django for awhile ,you are sounding more disingenuous.

Also you have my permission to post on GNI forum ,the curse out to Django on FB.

Banna you have no sense of humour. You need to get to a strip joint and blow out some steam ... 

So you are hurling accusations in the form of humor ? 

Django
Amral posted:

Rally crowds dont matter folks, it's what happens on election day that counts. 

True, but it does provide some insight as to interest which one hopes translates to votes.

FM
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Dave posted:
Django posted:
Gilbakka posted:
Dave posted:

Ayo recall what APNU/AFC mouth piece (Django) said last nite ... its a small crowd. 

Evidently what is mammoth to normal people is small to Django. This applies to the PPP/C only. He uses a different yardstick for the PNC-DOMINATED APNU+AFC. Not for nothing he says he won't share photos of APNU+AFC public meetings with GNI members. Give him full marks for cunning.

I can post the pictures and live video ,don't want some folks here to get dejected.

Mr Moderatar, the man who claimed to be balance and fair, why don’t you publish both parties and let us be the judge.

Very important, we have to approve PPPC pictures, knowing your history on this forum.

Django, is it true you getting some good curse at your old s k u n t on Facebook. 

You can post the pictures if you want to , it can be placed side by side .I have no intention at the moment.

The frivolous accusation by you ,of my history on this forum 18+ yrs ,doesn't hold water. My commentaries made on political figures are done after looking at the facts of their actions.

Quit the bullshit and stop bitching ,about approval to post pictures of PPP/C election events ,where it was barred ?  lay off Django for awhile ,you are sounding more disingenuous.

Also you have my permission to post on GNI forum ,the curse out to Django on FB.

Banna you have no sense of humour. You need to get to a strip joint and blow out some steam ... 

So you are hurling accusations in the form of humor ? 

Django bhai, you do not condemn the Granger government for their lawlessness and corruption... I am not the only one calling you out man .. 

 

FM
Dave posted:

Django bhai, you do not condemn the Granger government for their lawlessness and corruption... I am not the only one calling you out man ..

Do you want to start a debate on Corruption by Politicians in Guyana. Bring forth your list on a new thread.

Django

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