The Youth Coalition for Transfor-mation (YCT), the youth arm of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), on Friday urged Guya-nese to prepare for a year of street pressure combined with intense parliamentary activity to secure a number of demands.
YCT’s Lurlene Nestor told a public meeting, the final for the year, outside the Stabroek Market square that the demands include a new Guyana Elections Commis-sion, the resignation of Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee and a government of national unity, since it is only when these demands among others are met that Guyana could be assured of upward mobility.
While not many persons were in attendance, Nestor emphasised that crowds did not matter since if only a few were there, it illustrated that persons were holding true to the cause and the message would be sent.
Taken into consideration too, she said, was the fact that it was the Christmas season and persons would have been involved in the traditional preparations. However, she emphatically thanked the persons, many of whom were on their way home, who stopped to listen for brief periods.
“We will not be afraid. We understand intimidation… we are going to continue what we are doing because we know what is right,” she said.
Nestor also condemned the creation of the new Natural Resource Ministry, while warning of possible abuse of many of Guyana’s natural resources. “That is where all our resources are, that is where our riches are, we gold and diamond [and] everything. We are going to check to see if the constitution of that ministry is embedded in the laws of this country,” she said, adding, “I say to the minister and the president and all of them that planning to control that thing, I am saying to them that we putting them on notice and people if we got to march for that, we gonna march for that.”
YCT plans to hold a Resolution March and rally next Friday, at which it plans to set the tone for parliamentary and extra-parliamentary agenda for 2012.
The YCT says APNU and the Alliance For Change (AFC) intend to leverage their National Assem-bly majority to address a number of concerns for the Guyanese people.
Other speakers at the meeting included APNU executive James Bond and member Shondell Hope. Bond stated that he would not be a silent voice in parliament and that he and the many other youths would not waver in their fight for better education and opportunities of the nation’s youth along with reformation of the police force, among other things.
