TUF should be tried in totality – Garrido-Lowe

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As the lone female candidate so far to have tossed her hat into the presidential race, the United Force’s Valerie Garrido-Lowe feels she has an advantage because she brings different qualities to the table simply by being a woman.

The TUF presidential candidate, during a recent interview with SN, opined that Guyanese on the whole, especially women and the poor in society, are demoralized by the way the country is being governed.   “I think as a woman I can see deeper and think deeper; so do things that are real meaningful to effect general change and positive change,” she said. She said that as a woman it is not in her make-up to just overlook issues that others may consider minor. “While a man would say okay don’t worry with that or don’t fix that, a woman would more likely look into the matter and say let us fix this first so we could get the other one fixed,” she said.

Lowe last week faced her first major challenge as candidate when her call for former leader Manzoor Nadir to…..


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