Yarde has backing of Executive Council – Livan

GPSU Vice-President Mortimer Livan (third from left), along with other GPSU members at yesterday’s press conference at GPSU’s headquarters on Regent Street

Members of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), say that they will continue to back their President Patrick Yarde, if he is re-elected at the upcoming general elections in April.

Speaking at yesterday’s press conference to address the GPSU’s elections and other matters, Vice President Mortimer Livan said that at the Union’s Statutory Meeting on February 28, the members of the Executive Council unanimously requested Yarde to run for the office of president at the April elections, and they have pledged their support to him.

Some members of the GPSU have been protesting for Yarde to vacate the president’s office, after 30 years of service.  Yarde has been the Union’s president since