The PNC support is dwindling proportionately as the less-migrating Amerindians get stronger.

BRB, many Amerindians served with Granger in the Army. They have a connection with him.

Granger blasts President’s claims on Amerindian development

–    dismayed at “total ignorance and lack of objectivity”

Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), David Granger, on Wednesday slammed President Donald Ramotar’s recent utterances on Amerindian development as wildly uninformed and dangerous.

PNC Leader David Granger

Ramotar during the launch of Amerindian Heritage Month had declared that “only under the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) administration did Amerindians experience development.” He claimed, also, that education and health services “disappeared or, at best, stagnated after 1964.”
According to Granger, the President further claimed that Amerindian development only resumed “in 1992, with the return of democracy to Guyana and the PPP/C Party to the administration.”
Granger yesterday, during an emergency press engagement to respond to the Ramotar assertions, told media operatives that when he learnt of the president’s allegations against the then PNC administration, he was “dismayed at the President’s total ignorance and lack of objectivity.”
According to Granger, the improvement in public services to the indigenous communities and the progress made in hinterland development are a matter of incontrovertible historical record.
He said that the party wanted to remind the ruling administration that the desire to reclaim their ancestral lands has always been the chief desire of all of the indigenous nations.
Granger insisted that nothing was done in this regard by the 1957 to 1964 PPP administration. He said that it was the PNC that established the ‘Amerindian Lands Commission’ in September 1967, under the chairmanship of Mr. P A Forte.
This Commission, he said, began the task of demarcating and facilitating Indigenous land rights, “a process which the PPP is still to complete.”
According to Granger, the PNC had also appointed Philip Duncan, a member of the Wapichan nation, first, as Parliamentary Secretary and, later as Minister, for Amerindian Affairs.
He said too that it was the PNC that initiated the ‘Toshaos’ Conference in February 1969 and allowed for four days of consultation in Georgetown.

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....Government, he said, intends to look at the bigger picture and not at the antics of the opposition.
Touching briefly on the contentious salary increases granted to ministers and parliamentarians, Nagamootoo sought to justify them, saying that all the present government was doing was trying to correct the deficiencies of the past.
He also disclosed that the Granger administration will not turn a blind eye to the strict implementation of ministers and parliamentarians declaring their assets, and this would include any business he/she owns. He was also adamant that there will be absolutely no corruption as was tolerated under the PPP/C government. Nagamootoo also promised that investigations into the alleged wrongdoings of opposition members will be ongoing, and those found culpable will be charged and placed before the courts.
Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson and Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin also formed part of the four-man Guyana ministerial delegation.

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I guess October 13 is a looooong time ago, another era!

So, what were these past deficiencies? Any elaboration? 

In all due respect, I know he is PM and all, but what a clown.

Baseman, why was your nephew compensated more than Sam Hinds?

Which nephew?   I guess case of supply and demand!

BTW, nice suit!!