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AFC voices support for Victoria Village

May 30, 2011 Sports

The Alliance for Change has stated its support for descendants of the original owners of Victoria Village, who are seeking recognition for the historic action of their ancestors in purchasing the plantation in 1839.
Victoria Villagers had recently placed a petition before parliament asking that the move by the freed slaves be officially recognised as an event holding a special place in the history of Guyana.
“The AFC notes that the village movement of British Guiana which the purchase of plantation Northbrook (renamed Victoria) ignited was a truly phenomenal development that determined largely the course of rural settlement on the Guyanese coastland,” the party stated.
AFC described this initiative by the villagers as a significant effort in achieving their autonomy and independence from the British plantocracy.
“The AFC notes that the lofty endeavour of this pioneering class of freed men has been allowed by successive regimes of administration to wallow in a state of sustained poverty and underdevelopment,” the political party stated at its weekly media briefing held last Wednesday. Also at that briefing the AFC declared the ruling People’s Progressive Party incapable of curbing spiraling crime.
Citing a number of newspaper headlines depicting serious crimes AFC stated, “Public security is perhaps the most important aspect of a government’s responsibility… The importance of public security to investor interest cannot be overstated.”
“The failure by a government to provide this important deliverable is thus invariably an abdication of its responsibility.”
The party contends that there exists a number of suggestions to reducing crime but they go unheeded by the PPP. “The problem remains the government’s recalcitrance in repeatedly ducking these recommendations.”
“The failure by a government to provide this important deliverable is thus invariably an abdication of its responsibility.”
The party stated that in its ‘Action Plan’ for governance of this country “there is an exhaustive menu of measures which will surgically address criminal activity in Guyana.”

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