Pull Quote… “If this is the disdain with which Jagdeo and Nanda Gopaul of the Office of the President would treat her, how would they treat the ordinary Guyanese woman?” Ramjattan

AFC Presidential Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan

(KN) The woman who was presented to the nation and world leaders as Guyana’s First Lady for eight years is entitled to a pension as is the case with the widows– Doreen Chung, Joyce Hoyte and Janet Jagan. This is according to Alliance for Change Presidential Candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan, who said that according to Hindu rites Varshnie and President Bharrat Jagdeo were married and that the registration was merely a formality to conform with the local laws. “If she was my sister I would have gone up to him and put a good cut ass on him,” Ramjattan said, adding that it is the thing for a Hindu brother to do. Ramjattan added, “If this is the disdain with which Jagdeo and Nanda Gopaul of the Office of the President would treat Varshnie, how would they treat the ordinary Guyanese woman?”

This is de last hoorah fuh Bar Rat and he can’t tek it. But he cause one thing fuh happen. He mek people get quiet. Is not that these people dumb. Is just that dem frighten. Dem coulda talk bout all de things that happen but dem keep dem mouth shut. Now dem whispering how dem waiting fuh he guh out. But dem boys talking all de time. Dem got a trend from day one wheh dem does talk half and lef half. Now dem plan fuh let de whole cat out of de bag. Imagine dem boys only let de cat foot out de bag and de whole country get excited. Imagine wha gun happen when dem let out de whole cat.

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Dear Editor,

(SN) In my political life I have run into a lot of trouble because I have denounced people including people of my own race for injustice to others of any race or gender. My mother taught me not to bow down to money and power. I pity those who feel bound to do so and wish them better health. I could have been what people consider to be ‘well off‘ today if I had bowed to the excesses of either Dr Jagan or Mr Burnham on issues of conscience. I would have no difficulty condemning Buxton youth present at the PPP meeting if their acts deserved it. I am glad that the whole Buxton incident was very spirited, without violence. If there are cases of actual assault they should be named specifically. Branding people as a group is just as bad as the  alleged offence. There were two forms of response to the PPP/Civic speakers as far as I could make out. One was vigorous heckling.

(Popular Lindener, and Rights Activist, Norman Browne calls on Lindeners and Guyanese to support the AFC)

          Norman Browne

Those of us, post 1992, who endured the struggles to confront a government that has relegated a nation and people to the vices of poverty and oppression, continue to look to the horizon for the long awaited moment of change. In this struggle to see a better Guyana shorn of corruption, racism, cronyism, extrajudicial killings and the infestation of a narco-economy, have long examined our choices, be it with disappointment, but never shying from zooming in on a political movement that offers us a genuine opportunity to realise, together as a people, a better society. Those of us who in the more than a decade and the greater part of 19 years, have protested on the streets of our country; have been teargassed, arrested and drag before the courts of the land guilty of the crime of fighting on behalf of the suffering masses, can no longer be hesitant in entrusting our confidence in a unique political party that stands before us with the key to open the doors of prosperity.

Presidential Candidate of the AFC Khemraj Ramjattan interacting with persons at the meeting.

(KN) Levelling charges of corruption from top to bottom by Government officials, the Alliances For Change (AFC) did not mince words even as a PPP/C canter with loud music interrupted the meeting at the Parika Junction last evening. In attendance were Presidential Candidate of the AFC Khemraj Ramjattan, Moses Nagamotoo, AFC economist Sasenarine Singh and Rajendra Bissessar. Moses Nagamotoo who lambasted President Bharrat Jagdeo said that many persons are not pleased with the actions of the government, especially after he Nagamootoo spent 50 years of his life trying to bring about changes while he was serving in the PPP/C. “After Cheddi Jagan died they made it difficult for me to be a part of the party because every day we have seen the corruption growing more and more, and no one can criticize Jagdeo and the Government apart from him buying over the leadership of the party.

…Opposition Candidates suspicious of NCN’s impartiality

(KN) The Presidential Candidates for the upcoming Regional and General Elections created history on Thursday last when for the first time in almost 20 years they provided the electorate with a public debate prior to Election Day. The Candidates, Donald Ramotar of the Peoples Progressive Party Civic; David Granger of A Partnership of National Unity: Alliance for Change’s Khemraj Ramjattan and Peter Persaud of The United Force had all provided a stirring discourse in the process providing necessary talking points for the electorate to ponder. The winner of the debate from all accounts points to the Retired Brigadier Granger but certainty, revenge, capitalizing on a missed opportunity or simply a rebuttal to establish dominance at round two of the debate is now in limbo. That debate is scheduled to take place next Tuesday.

           Edul Ahmad

(KN) The United States of America, by and through Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; Alexander A. Solomon and Claire S. Kedeshian, Assistant United States Attorneys, on October 31, last, signalled its intention to seize properties belonging to Edul Ahmad. Ahmad is Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo’s close and personal friend who has been indicted in the United States for conspiracy to commit mail fraud as well as bank fraud. The US prosecutors through official court documents filed on October 31, gave notice that it is seeking forfeiture of: a Money Judgment: a sum of money in United States currency in an amount to be determined at his sentencing.