Key NY backers leave AFC for APNU

From left are Rab Mukraj, Dr Asquith Rose, Dr Tarron Khemraj, APNU Leader David Granger and APNU MP Joseph Harmon

Three New York-based members of the Alliance For Change (AFC) have switched their support to main opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU),

Economist Dr Tarron Khemraj, who along with businessman Rab Mukraj and Political Science Professor Asquith Rose, has left the AFC’s New York chapter, said that the party has been suffering from “self-inflicted wounds” for a long time. “I feel I have done what I could do for the AFC… Now I would like to be a part of something that can vehicle bigger visions to bring about national unity and national and human development,” Khemraj told Stabroek News in an interview from New York yesterday.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan, who was caught unaware of the departures, said it was “disappointing” news, while