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While some business people have been quietly speaking out against the actions of the
Action Tyre Owner
Ron Persaud
incumbent People’s Progressive Party/ Civic – government’s “corrupt and nepotistic” behaviour, prominent businessman Ron Persaud, proprietor of Action Tyre, is expressing concerns over the poor management of the country.
He is vowing to abandon his business and migrate from Guyana if the PPP/C is to remain in government.
Persaud, who travelled from Guyana to Canada, was speaking to a packed room of A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) supporters in the Diaspora at a breakfast held at the Riverstone Golf and Country Club in Greater Toronto over the weekend.
During a special segment that allowed for questions, answers and comments, Persaud expressed discontent at the manner in which citizens have been treated. He then announced his decision to leave Guyana. He said that he is aware, too, that other business people are prepared to pack up and leave if they must endure another term under this government.
“If you don’t align yourself with the PPP and Government, you can get nothing from them. “He said that as a taxi driver to a businessman, he has never left Guyana, but another term under the PPP/C leadership is enough to make him leave if there is no change. “I am fed up of them. And the money they have stolen would go eventually, because it is like a curse.”
“Ask (former Philippines President) Ferdinand Marcos and others who stole,”
From right: Moses Nagamootoo, David Granger and other party officials.
Persaud advised. Persaud is just another businessman to denounce the PPP/C for what he claims is the poor management of the country, corruption and all the negative impact that comes with a ‘failed state’.
Businessman and rice producer Sam Bacchus and Pegasus Hotel owner, Robert Badal, are just a few names to say no to another PPP/C-leadership. More recently, long standing and influential businessman, Dr. Yesu Persaud, said that the time has come for change in the country.
While he did not endorse any of the contenders, he said that “…change is inevitable…and if you have a change, you have to have a Government that is determined… (and has)
A well attended affair, APNU+AFC’s main event in Toronto.
unquestionable sincerity in what it does.”
APNU+AFC’s Presidential candidate, Brig. David Granger and Prime Ministerial candidate Moses Nagamootoo while addressing the Diaspora touched on issues such as the state of the economy, the crime and security situation, ensuring a level playing field for Guyanese investors, jobs for youths and the country’s alarming suicide rate.
Speaking at the well-attended breakfast, and later at a press conference, Granger charged the PPP with failing to handle the country’s crime situation. He said that at no time in the past 23 years can the party claim to being on top of the crime situation believed to result from the high level of tolerance for the booming narco-trade and its players for the plethora of executions and unsolved murders in the country.
“We will make Guyana a safe place for you to return,” Granger told the meeting. “The APNU+AFC administration would do all in its power to ensure a level playing field for investors and a safe environment for both regular citizens and returning Guyanese.”
Nagamootoo, commenting on the economy, said that in 1992 the PPP inherited an economy growing at an average of seven percent and with a $2.1B foreign debt that was cut to around $800M; “only now to be on its way back up to 1990 levels.”
They blamed Bharrat Jagdeo for today’s economy, and for runway crime. Granger, a respected historian, said that at no time in Guyana’s history has so much blood flowed, pointing to the number of murders, executions and suicides.
“Happy people do not kill themselves,” he said when referring to high suicide rates in Regions Six, Two and Three.
In the area of education, the coalition government is promising technical institutes in every administrative region as well as agricultural training schemes to give youths greater access to education and hope.
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