Candidates of the United Force (TUF), the National Independent Party (NIP) and the Independent Party (IP) on Friday passionately presented their plans and policy ideas for a post-May 11 Guyana—provided they manage to secure seats in Parliament—to a small group of University of Guyana (UG) students.
The event was a series of student forums hosted by the UG Students Society (UGSS) in the George Walcott Lecture Theatre (GWLT). These forums were organized by the UGSS following its unsuccessful efforts to facilitate debates between the presidential and prime ministerial candidates of the two major parties contesting tomorrow’s elections. Friday’s forums, which follow one with APNU+AFC presidential candidate David Granger on Wednesday last, were poorly supported by the students of the university. The GWLT which can hold over 300 persons at no point had more than 30 students. In fact several of the attendees seemed to be mostly passing through.
Marissa Nadir led a three-member team from the TUF, including prime ministerial candidate Roy Vantull and executive member Dr Victor Allen. They outlined their policies both for Guyana generally and the university specifically. They told those present that they recognize that they cannot win the general elections so they have chosen to concentrate on securing two parliamentary seats which would allow them to begin to be
