| Separation of powers was blurred under PNC…PNC led a criminal state in our society…President Ramotar says |  |  |  |
| Written by Imran Khalil |
| Sunday, 06 October 2013 22:53 |
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar reiterated the administration’s case for a number of its flagships, even as he blasted the Opposition over its track record and policy stances, during his address last evening at a People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) rally held on the Lusignan tarmac.
 President Donald Ramotar addresses the rally Ramotar reserved his harshest words for the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), saying that under their administration, national elections, as well as elections for positions in trade unions, the University of Guyana Council and even Amerindian tribes were rigged. “They wanted to control everything,” he lamented, noting, “Really, we have only had freedom in the last 21 years in this country, despite the fact that we are 47 years since independence.” Getting more into combative stride, Ramotar charged that Guyanese have lived in a country where the separation of powers was blurred, where the PNC flag was flying above the court houses, and “the paramountcy of the party was the philosophy of the day.” Political meetings were broken up by “thugs and criminals of the PNC”, the President said, adding, “Many important political leaders were murdered, remember our own Jagan Ramessar and Bholenauth Paramanan on the Corentyne, [remember] Walter Rodney.” The President continued, “Today these same people [PNC] talking a whole set of nonsense about criminalisation of the state. They themselves led a criminal state in our society. They were even once talking about planting drugs on people. All they have done, all their lives, is to work with criminals against the people, against our country.”  The crowd at yesterday’s rally “But now we have rebuilt, now it’s time to take our country to another level, to go higher and to go farther along the way [and] to do so, we need new infrastructure that will help us accelerate economic growth and development in our country,” he added, as he went on to press the case for many of the government’s flagship projects. “You can judge the opposition parties by their attitudes to these infrastructures that we want to put in place,” the President charged, referring to the political storm kicked up by the combined Opposition in response to issues of transparency bedevilling such projects as the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport expansion. “They are trying to destroy them because they believe by keeping people in poverty, by destroying livelihoods, then they will have a better opportunity,” he said.
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| Last Updated on Sunday, 06 October 2013 23:12 |
