APNU presidential candidate David Granger yesterday said that the PPP/C administration must bear “full responsibility” for the country’s high crime rate, as opposition groups dismissed claims by the PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar and President Bharrat Jagdeo of links by prominent members to criminals.
At a campaign rally on Saturday in Bartica, Ramotar lambasted several opposition leaders, including Granger and his running mate Dr Rupert Roopnaraine as well as the AFC’s candidates Khemraj Ramjattan, Raphael Trotman and Moses Nagamootoo, saying they had no “moral right” to hold public office and sought to link some with criminals. Presi-dent Jagdeo, speaking just before Ramotar, stated that US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks said that the PNCR had a hand in the events in Buxton during the post-2002 crime wave and some of the same individuals terrorising Buxton were part of the gang that committed the 2008 Bartica massacre. He said that if that party were to get into power, guns would be given to the criminals.
“APNU has rejected charges that the PNCR had ever been involved in criminal activity,” Granger said yesterday at an
