The People’s Progressive Party today exposed threats as well as blackmail attempts directed towards its Prime Ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper. In a release issued by the party Mrs Harper said since being selected as the running mate of incumbent President Donald Ramotar there were attempts by a known individual to blackmail and extort her in regards to a legal dispute between her son and his former business partners. She provided 2 emails to support her claim.

One of the emails which emanated from ‘ guyanaelection@gmail.com’ has ‘APNU/AFC are offering me US$ 5 MM to expose you and your son.... what say you?’ as the subject. The other which came from ‘ infoforu61@gmail.com’ the author wrote “I will wait for his response. But time is scarce. We don't have too many options left. We will pull the trigger if we need to. We need our obligation satisfied ASAP”.

Since being selected as the PPPC Prime Ministerial candidate Harper has come under attack from the political opposition and its supporters. Businessman and BLUE CAPS founder Clinton Urling also suffered a similar fate with calls of a boycott of his fast food restaurant being made.

extracted from http://www.newguymedia.com