Ensure Buxton mayhem never repeated – Teixeira urges villagers

Several young PPP/C supporters from out of Buxton last night received PPP/C haversacks during the ruling party’s rally held in the village.

Facing a somewhat hostile reception last evening in Buxton, senior PPP/C member Gail Teixeira expressed remorse at the crime spree that gripped the village a few years ago and called on villagers to ensure that it is never repeated in Guyana.

“We regret what happened in Buxton and we say here on the PPP/C platform that… what happened in Buxton must never ever, ever, ever again happen in Buxton or any other part of Guyana,” Teixeira said. “We as a people must make sure that it never, ever, ever happens again,” she declared to some vocal support from the audience.   She said that through dialogue the PPP/C was able to reach out and help “reconstruct a village whose soul had been tormented”.

She was addressing a gathering of about 300-400 people as the PPP/C took its campaign to the East Coast Demerara village where it