Ramotar shuns UG Workers Union organized debate

Donald Ramotar

The University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) says that the PPP/C’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar has declined to participate in a presidential debate the union was organising involving the candidates of the three major parties contesting the elections.

“The UGWU is in receipt of a letter from Mr Robert Persaud on the Ministry of Agriculture letterhead, informing the union that Mr Donald Ramotar has declined an invitation from the union to officially debate presidential candidates David Granger and Khemraj Ramjattan at the Turkeyen campus,” the union said in a release. Granger and Ramjattan accepted the invitation, the union said.

The PPP, late yesterday afternoon, released to the media Persaud’s response to the UGWU, which was carried on