AFC wants urgent action on women

As the world celebrated International Women’s Day yesterday under the theme ‘Connecting Girls Inspiring futures’ The Alliance for Change (AFC) hopes that social issues affecting Guyanese women would be looked at with urgency by the authorities.

“The Alliance For Change calls on all the leaders to examine the true position and conditions of the majority of our women and to act immediately to help them” said AFC parliamentarian Cathy Hughes at a press conference the party held at the Ariantze Hotel on Wednesday.

Hughes and other fellow party executive Valerie Garrido-Lowe, while mentioning the strides women would have made over the decades, condemned the  suffering of their Guyanese sisters as