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President Ramotar interacting with Essequibians

Essequibians accord President a rousing welcome – during busy two-day visit to ‘Cinderella County’

February 27, 2015

PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar was given a rousing welcome Wednesday at Supenaam as he arrived by a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) jet boat to the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region for a two-day visit.

As the Army boat approached the farmers’ stelling, a large crowd, including speed boat operators, hire car drivers, farmers and residents, gathered to welcome and meet with the Guyanese Head of State.
President Ramotar was accompanied by Minister within the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Alli Baksh, and Region 2 Chairman, Mr Parmanand Persaud.
One woman who came from the Supenaam Creek said she was very happy and felt blessed after shaking the President’s hand. The woman, who is a farmer, said she sees the President on television many times but never had an opportunity to meet him personally.
The President, who was on a two-day visit to the Essequibo Coast, started off by addressing a large crowd of residents at Sand Road, Supenaam at a community meeting.
President Ramotar also addressed community meetings at Aurora, Huis’t Diren and Adventure on Wednesday, and based on reports, the meetings attracted large crowds.
The President continued his meetings yesterday at Charity New Housing Scheme, New Road, Better Hope and Dartmouth.
Meanwhile, residents at the meetings on Wednesday pledged their full support to the PPP/C at the upcoming elections. One man declared that the PPP/C must be returned to office to continue developing the country.

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</dt><dd class="gallery-caption">Residents of Huis’t Diren listen attentivly to President Ramotar at a community meeting</dd></dl>

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Former Member

Carib raised eyebrows yesterday when he challenged the AFC as to what they can bring to the PNC table.

He correctly stated that the PNC is good for forty percent.

AFC will bring three percent or less.

You do the math.

2/27/158:52 AM

Former Member

Originally Posted by yuji22:

Carib raised eyebrows yesterday when he challenged the AFC as to what they can bring to the PNC table.

He correctly stated that the PNC is good for forty percent.

AFC will bring three percent or less.

You do the math.

Region 3 is PPP domain. The AFC will bring the new coalition more than 3 points here and they will make commutative gains here sufficiently so that it threatens the PPP. People there have lived lives not a big mouth as you do gulping air.Rice Farmers know the PPP is the cause of their woes. Poor medical care, policing etc do not give them an edge either. They will certainly lose ground here and they cannot afford it.

2/27/159:43 AM

MitwahSenior Member

Rice farmers say “game over” for PPP/C

by Kurt Campbell · February 26, 2015

Key players in the local rice industry say the game is over for the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government and is encouraging other rice farmers and millers to vote for the newly formed opposition coalition when Guyanese head to the polls on May 11.

Rice farmers believe the PPP/C administration has too much of a tight grip on the industry which was built by the private sector and claim that they have self-engineered a crisis that is likely to worsen in coming weeks.

Rice farmers are accusing the administration of a massive cover-up and claim that there is more than 100,000 tons of paddy from the last crop that is still at Rice silos around the country with no market to dispose of this surplus.

In the next 3 weeks, more than 400,000 tons of paddy will be harvested and rice farmers say there are no arrangements being made to find markets for this new intake.

“This impeding crisis has been created as a result of the unnecessary control of the industry by the Minister of Agriculture, Leslie Ramsammy, and his PPP cronies at the Guyana Rice Producers Association, a front-organisation of the PPP and the Guyana Rice Development Board,” Chair of RPA Action Committee Jinnah Rahman told reporters on Thursday.

He said its time the administration give rice farmers to industry to manage and operate by themselves and is lobbying for a change in laws that give the government power over the marketing of rice and paddy.

Rahman is calling on all rice farmers to vote solidly for the APNU/AFC alliance on May 11.

“No longer would we allow any future government to control the rice industry… we have to take this political stand,” he added as he declared that President Donald Ramotar and all his Ministers and Cabinet Members are all rice eaters that do not fully understand the rice industry; causing many farmers to suffer, having to sell their produce at cheap rates.

Meanwhile, Co-ordinator of RPA Action Committee and International Specialist on the Rice Industry Dr. Turhane Doerga said that the PPP/C must stop taking credit for the successes of the industry which he said started even before they took office in 1992 and is as a result of the work private farmers have done.

He supported his colleague’s call for rice farmers to turn their backs on the PPP/C and accused the administration of covering up the fact that the Venezuela deal was used for families and friends of the incumbent to the detriment of the industry. “The chaos in the rice industry is near boiling point.”

He presented a collective list demands which include the urgent formation of a professional committee of world experienced brokers to market the rice at acceptable prices.

Rice farmers also want the reestablishment of the Agribank so farmers can borrow at Affordable interest rates and the establishment of an intervention fund so farmers are guaranteed a minimum price before planting.

http://newsnow.gy/poli…/rice-farmers-say-game-over-for-pppc/

Rice farmers say “game over” for PPP/C

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2/27/1510:24 AM

Former Member

Donald Ramotar traveled to the Essequibo Coast to campaign for the PPP.

A GDF jet boat took him to Supenaam.

Ramotar and the PPP are shamelessly abusing and misusing State resources for self-serving party purposes.

Clearly, fair elections are a fiction as the PPP's rivals don't have equal access to State resources.

Why didn't Freedom House hire a jet boat to transport its presidential candidate to Essequibo?

2/27/1510:36 AM

MitwahSenior Member

Key players in the local rice industry say the game is over for the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government and is encouraging other rice farmers and millers to vote for the newly formed opposition coalition when Guyanese head to the polls on May 11.

2/27/1511:04 AM