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David Granger in USA to meet Diaspora
“To emphasise the importance of party unity and to attract former members to return to the party”
Brigadier (ret) David Granger will leave Guyana today to start a one-week visit to meet People’s National Congress Reform members in New York, New Jersey and Washington DC.
The visit is in response to an invitation from PNCR members and concerned Guyanese in the diaspora.
Granger has put forward his name for nomination as the PNCR candidate for the General Elections due next year.
He will undertake the visit, which has been planned several weeks ago, as an initiative to strengthen party solidarity and reinforce support for the PNCR for the forthcoming elections.
Brigadier (ret) David Granger
In an invited comment, Granger said that his mission will be “to emphasise the importance of party unity and to encourage former members to return to the party.”
Granger’s visit will include press conferences, radio programme interviews, Town Hall meetings and attendance at a church service.
There will also be encounters with party members and Guyana Defence Force veterans.
Granger has in the past, upon the announcement that he was interested in the position of Presidential Candidate for the PNCR, pledged to reunite the PNC into the vibrancy with which it began.
Under the leadership of the first Executive President of Guyana, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, PNC was known to the vanguard party with majority supporters.
However, since both the death of this renowned leader and a subsequent lost of 28 yrs of political rule in 1992, the party slumped into disunity. Vice President Hamilton Green was expelled and many other top ranking members changed ranks.
Granger is a former Commander of the Guyana Defence Force.
He founded the Guyana Review news magazine in 1992, and remains its Managing Editor.
He has researched and published on military, historical and media themes; and is also the author of ‘Guyana’s State Media: the quest for control’, and A Preliminary Study of Women Soldiers in the Anglophone Caribbean.
He joined the GDF in 1965 and trained in Britain, Brazil and Nigeria. Granger became Commander of the GDF in 1979 when he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier.
He was also appointed National Security Advisor to the President in 1990 and retired from the military service in 1992.
Earlier this year he made his announcement that he wanted the post of presidential candidate for the PNCR.
He has a First Degree from the University of Guyana in history and Master’s Degree in political science.
He also holds a degree in International relations from University of the West Indies and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland and also attended what is now called the Caribbean Defense and Security Course at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, DC.
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