Eight months after the APNU+AFC government created a ruckus over the discovery that a group close to the PPP/C had a 99-year lease on historic Red House at a peppercorn rate, the situation remains the same.
Attorney General Basil Williams yesterday said that government is not in favour of a proposal to rent Red House to the PPP/C as it strongly believes that given that it is state property it should benefit all the country’s presidents and not just one. Red House currently houses the papers of the late President, Dr Cheddi Jagan.
Updating the media on the controversial lease arrangement at a press conference at the Attorney General’s Chambers, Williams said that government feels very strongly about this matter. He said that Guyana has had nine presidents and government’s view is that
