Region Ten Councillor refuses ‘Spanish’ diary

Region Ten Councillor Charles Sampson with the diary in hand.

Veteran member of the Region Ten Democratic Council, Charles Sampson, refused to accept the diary that was distributed to the newly inaugurated members of the council at their first meeting on Thursday.

Sampson, who was a member of the Council when Parliament was dissolved, paving the way for the May 11 regional and general elections, stressed that he had spoken about the diary before – in the previous council when the diaries were issued at the beginning of the year – and he was surprised that the similar diaries were being distributed to the current councillors.

Highlighting that the diary is written in Spanish and makes no reference to Guyana, Sampson said it’s an