AFC will remain independent – Gaskin

Dominic Gaskin

The Alliance for Change (AFC) will not be “swayed into a pre-election coalition with either the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) or A Party for National Unity (APNU), but remain independent, its Treasurer Dominic Gaskin said.

This declaration comes after the defection of several party members, both local and abroad, who party leader Khemraj Ramjattan said had issues with the way the AFC voted in the National Assembly recently.

At least one of the departed, who has since joined APNU has said that he believed the AFC should have continued to