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Rejection by the people of Sophia
Editor,
In the recent thank you address to the Sophia district, Minister of State Joseph Harmon is said to have issued terse words, which in effect is a call to violence against The Opposition. Harmon’s alleged call to violence is a direct response to the naked results of the last Local Government Elections (LGE), which saw his party receiving a whipping at the hands of The PPP/C’s Candidate.
In an area that is considered a PNC stronghold, Harmon’s party saw sure defeat, something they cannot come to grips with. Those results incensed him, hence his resort to an age old PNC tactic of castigating your opponent in the vilest way possible, spewing enough hate which would have the desired effect to whip up violence.
But in speaking vile things about The PPP/C Minister, Harmon has put his foot squarely in his mouth, because Sophia of all places would have remembered that it was The PPP/C who gave them Sophia and a place called home when his, Harmon’s Party, through its leader Desmond Hoyte, raced them off the land. They would have remembered that it was The PPP/C who picked them up and made them into a thriving township.
They would have remembered, also, that it was The PPP/C who gave them a cash grant of $10,000 for every school-aged child. In a community that is overwhelmingly made up of single parent Black Mothers ( I would like the editors to publish this sentence exactly the way I’ve penned it), those single parent mothers would have remembered who cared for them and came to their rescue when she and her family needed it most.
Those mothers know fully well that it was not, I repeat, was not The PNC who did that. Rather, it was the PPP/C. So, as a show of gratitude, those people voted for the party who cared.
They would have also come to the realization that the party in times past to whom they gave their votes, is all about using them for vile causes like the last visit made by Harmon. So, The Sophia Residents are tired of this nonsense and showed their displeasure in a decisive way the last LGE. No amount of rants and threats from him can erase that fact.
The same could be said of another Afro-dominated neighbourhood of Foulis – Buxton; here again, The PNC saw massive defeat which is a direct result to the question who care and who are really interested in our wellbeing? Instead of developing the people there, Buxton was used by The PNC as a place for nefarious activities when again violence was the main purpose for that party.
During the crime spree years, some gullible ones in Buxton aided and abetted criminal elements there quite to the gleeful cheerleading PNC. They even made a song out of it “Bad man a Bad man, Bad man shoot man Bad man, a Buxton man.” This was all done in their subversive and terror campaign against The PPP/C.
Well, I can tell Harmon that Buxtonians have gotten tired of their village being used by The PNC and their thugs, hence a staunch rejection in their voting style last LGE. The Buxton – Foulis NDC Neighbourhood has spoken outright. Enough is enough, we want a party and councillors who speak peace and progress not war and deceit.
So, Harmon has to go someplace else with that racist political bile, there is a New Guyana rising and this can only be achieved with PPP/C’s Guidance and leadership.
Respectfully submitted
Neil Adams
Editor’s note: Foulis-Buxton is not an Afro-dominated council. It accommodates Strathspey, Enterprise, and other Indo-centric communities. For its part, Buxton did not give a single vote to the PPP.
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