| – plans ‘surprises’ for Lusignan rallyThe incumbent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will today detail its five-year development plan for Guyana as it looks to retain the seat of government at the November 28 polls.The party manifesto will be unveiled at a fund-raising dinner this evening at the Princess Hotel, Providence,Jerseys China Wholesale, East Bank Demerara.Part of the plan will also be launched at a rally planned for Lusignan,Cheap Jerseys From China Online, East Coast Demerara tomorrow. Executive Committee member Robert Persaud yesterday spoke of “surprises” for today’s rally, including the announcement of new names joining the PPP/C platform.Phillip Bynoe, left, speaks at a PPP press conference yesterday. Also in picture is PPP Executive Committee Member Robert Persaud.In early 2008,Wholesale Jerseys, just two years after the party was returned to government for a fourth consecutive time, Lusignan witnessed the bloodiest event in its history when marauding gunmen snuffed out the lives of 11 of its residents, including children.The loud speakers at the PPP/C rally would be sure to reach the residents of Track A, where the massacre took place, and so the party could face the task of defending its 2006 manifesto promise to “institute radical changes in the criminal justice system and the bodies mandated to uphold law and order in which all citizens in their communities, interest groups,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, and non-governmental bodies will play a more active participatory role in promoting safer neighbourhoods and a more law abiding society.”Persaud, a representative of the 2011 campaign, boasted that the party had fulfilled its 2006 promises and actually exceeded itself on a number of initiatives.Persaud said that for the next five years, the PPP would be looking for the support of the electorate on a “profound, practical, and forward looking agenda.”Meanwhile, as it continues its rallies and public meetings,Custom Philadelphia 76ers Jerseys, the party is complaining that some persons who once belonged to opposition parties and who are now joining the PPP, have come in for “the most horrific” attacks and assaults.Persaud said that everyone has the right and freedom to be openly associated with any party he or she chooses to. He called it a “sacred” right that the PPP fought to give every Guyanese.However, he said some supporters of the PPP have been the victims of racist and vulgar comments.Among those the party says have come under attack is Phillip Bynoe. He was jointly charged with Mark Benschop for treason in 2002 and managed to stay out of the reach of the Police until he was eventually pardoned by President Bharrat Jagdeo in December,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, 2008.Bynoe took the trip down from the mining town of Linden to tell a press conference called by the PPP about the attacks on him by the opposition coalition APNU, but spared details.Bynoe said that he was at APNU’s rally in Linden Saturday and heard how he was being accused of “jumping ship.” But as far as he was concerned APNU is “a shipjumper’s” arrangement.APNU is composed of the country’s largest opposition party, the PNC with its Reform and One Guyana arms which it added on for the last two elections, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA),Cheap Stitched Jerseys, the Guyana Action Party and the National Front Alliance.Bynoe said that he was surprised that the WPA, which he claims was “specifically” targeted by the PNC when it was in government, is now subscribing to the attacks against him.Persaud was asked about the fact that while the party is complaining about such attacks, President Bharrat Jagdeo has sought to “cuss” local media houses he deems to be “opposition” and has promised to continue to “cuss.”Persaud said that the President has not on any occasion condemned the local media in a “sweeping way” and said no one in Guyana is above criticism.However, Persaud, a former media practitioner himself, would not be dragged into subscribing to the President’s use of the words “Carrion Crow” and “Vultures” to describe independent journalists.On Thursday, the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Dr Steve Surujbally charged that attacking the media in general and on individual media personnel in particular “is self-destructive, nation-wrecking, counterproductive and frankly inane and the confounded nonsense must cease and it must cease now.” |
