New APNU Region Six Councilor vows to keep government on its toes

Sep 22, 2025 News

Kaieteur News – After being pummeled at the recently concluded general and regional elections, the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has turned its effort to coordinating its own representatives to assume seats on the Region Democratic Councils (RDCs) countrywide.

New APNU Region Six Councilor vows to keep government on its toes

Mehalai Natasha McAlmont

For the East Berbice-Corentyne region, the party released the names of its three RDC councillors. They are: Mehalai Natasha McAlmont, Colin Emannuel Moore of Kildonan, Corentyne and Candy Ramona Stewart of Springlands, Corriverton.

McAlmont, an educator of the Tutorial Academy Secondary School, is gearing to not only take a balanced approach, but to hold the government accountable in the region when she sits on the RDC, which is controlled by the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C).

She intends to use her stage to bring to the fore critical issues, foremost among which is what she regarded to as political pettiness on the part of the government towards her party at the local government level.

“Too many times, because the PPP government understands that they are in charge, they tend to silence our people and tend to be bias in their provision for the council that we are managing.”

Using the APNU-ran Hogstye/Lancaster Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) as a reference, the party member disclosed that the organ is starved of means to execute its mandate, in striking contrast to the PPP-backed NDCs being given preferential treatment.

“Too many times when you look at those playfields and those NDCs that are managed by us, they are poorly run because they are limited in resources,” she reasoned, adding that the NDCs cannot only depend on rates and taxes.

The APNU has lost significant parliamentary seats to Azruddin Mohamed’s We Invest in Nationhood (WIN), as the party suffered a sharp decline in support at the polls.

Notwithstanding, the educator is confident in her party’s capacity to keep the government on its toes, and even pitched her admiration for the party’s leader, Aubrey Norton.

“If you’re saying to me that Aubrey Norton is the problem, then I would beg to differ, because I’ve seen his leadership styles that I’ve admired, and I’ve seen the leadership styles that allowed me, a young person, to not only flourish under his leadership, but approach him when things go wrong or when I feel aggrieved,” she stated.

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