Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. The PPP/C has declined the offer. Only APNU has submitted a column this week.
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic Administration has chastised, pilloried and ridiculed recently outgoing United States Ambassador, D. Brent Hardt. The Ambassador’s big ‘sin’ was to call on the Donald Ramotar Administration to hold local government elections. He told attendees at a forum arranged by the Blue Caps – a NGO – that civil society must also demand that the Executive hold these elections which was crucial to democracy.
Clement Rohee, PPP General Secretary, accused Ambassador Hardt of meddling in Guyana’s internal affairs. The PPP further accused the US diplomat of “…breaching all diplomatic protocols” and of launching “a barrage of anti-government farewell salvoes towards the Office of the President and Freedom House, Headquarters of the People’s Progressive Party.” Ambassador Hardt,
