VOTE FOR PROGRESS TO CONTINUE - Your future is the KEY in your PALM

VOTE FOR PROGRESS TO CONTINUE – Your future is the KEY in your PALM

Mar 01, 2020 AFC Column, Features / Columnists

Guyana today is like a brand new house under construction, being built on a solid, iron-hard foundation, and no amount of lies the opposition tells can make it untrue. Guyana has turned around from what our nation was in 2015.
Because we all know better, and because we see the beginnings of a better life, we can recognise the PPP’s campaign shouting for what it is – desperation! With nothing to criticise, they just wildly repeat the very same accusations that were leveled at them when they were the government.
They haven’t a shred of information to support their wild claims so they resort to their own archives and exchange PPP with APNU+AFC. In their time, just under 5 years ago, those accusations against the PPP were very real and every citizen had the evidence of their ministers’ wild, selfish, greedy, corrupt activities between 1997 and 2015.
Even young, first-time voters know about the PPP’s free-for-all with the nation’s money – what we earned and what was loaned to us.
FANTASTIC FIRST-TERM ACHIEVEMENTS
No one can reasonably dispute that the APNU+AFC Coalition Government has been able to strengthen the economy in just 4 years. The Coalition has done better than previous administrations in achieving fantastic first-term results, especially the 77 percent increase in the national minimum wage.
The Coalition, in concert with the M&CC, has gone a long way in salvaging the capital city, Georgetown – bringing it back from the cesspool it was in 2015. Government also commissioned four (4) new municipalities – Lethem, Mabaruma, Bartica and Mahdia, a hinterland mining town. Guyana now has ten (10) municipalities each with its own town council. Together with the NDCs, the Toshao Village Councils, Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs), all local government bodies, these councils work with central government, make their own decisions and develop their own communities according to their needs.
There are still battles to fight to prevent the RDCs in the Regions controlled by the PPP from holding back the people’s development. Those Regional Councils receive the same monetary allocations as the other regions but residents still have issues with steady garbage collection, drainage and irrigation and rickety infrastructure. They are being left out, but they can change that tomorrow!
WOMAN POWER
Guyanese women are more empowered under the Coalition with many more women in leadership positions. The President’s Cabinet has 11 woman ministers, which is twice the global average of women in government. At the regional and municipal levels, woman mayors, REOs, REDOs, and other leaders are improving their communities, leading Guyana’s Technological Revolution, creating applications to address developmental challenges, and women are leading the training of young and old to master computer technologies and STEM.
First Lady Sandra Granger said, “This government has slow and steady hands. This government has an easy touch and I promise you, it will not come and go in an easy rush.” She reminds us that the President made a promise to lift women out of poverty and he has kept it because he believes in equality, and in education.
• Students now have access to world-class 21st century education
• Frequency of school dropouts is reducing
• Young female dropouts can go back to school confident in the new support systems
• More duty-free concessions for teachers from 2020
• Maternal deaths are down by 75%
Office of the Prime Minister’s Legal Advisor Tamara Khan said, “Sisters, this is only the beginning. This beloved country of ours will become an educated nation. President Granger will lead us into the decade of development with compassion, with vision and not with the self-interest we saw over the last 23 years. We cannot forget where we have come from. We will stay with David Granger!”
—Vote tomorrow to keep this train of progress rolling—

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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