Ramotar woos APNU over Amaila

Donald Ramotar

President Donald Ramotar yesterday made a renewed bid to win APNU’s support for the Amaila Hydropower project but party Leader David Granger maintains that the venture cannot be supported in its present form.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) MP and finance spokesman Carl Greenidge, after hearing of the president’s bid, questioned Ramotar’s logic of expecting APNU to change its position just because he asked the party to do so.

Greenidge said that the position taken by APNU was “principled.” In relation to the president’s efforts to change the opposition’s mind, he said that the government “cannot simply ask the opposition to change their