‘All I want is betterment for my children and grandchildren’

Edris Calder

“All I want is betterment for my children and grandchildren,” 82-year-old Mahdia resident Edris Calder says, speaking about a campaign of neglect and blatant disrespect she said that residents endured under the PPP/C administration.

Speaking to Stabroek News a week before the general elections, Calder said she moved to the mining area when she was eight years old accompanied by her parents who sought a better livelihood with plans to establish careers in mining and farming. They were taken there by trucks, she said,