Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) General Secretary Lincoln Lewis has lashed out at newly-selected PPP presidential candidate Donald Ramotar, saying he ought to answer for government policies that have stymied the working class and led to the degeneracy of the society.
“Now that the incumbent PPP has signalled that its General Secretary Mr. Donald Ramotar has secured the nod to be the party’s presidential candidate, his stewardship as party leader, member of parliament, and lead decision maker of the government’s policies must come under scrutiny for he cannot escape responsibility for the degeneracy of this society,” Lewis said in a statement, hours after Ramotar had been selected.
Pointing to the acknowledgement by Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon that the PPP’s policies in-formed government’s actions, Lewis said that Ramotar “would have to explain to the workers of this country what informed his decisions to preside over the erosion of their rights, [and] the continued failure
