| Buxton’s economy suffered under PNCR policies – Ramotar |
| Friday, 27 August 2010 | |
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“…ruling administration revived village through investment.” General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Donald Ramotar has fired another salvo at the leader of the Opposition Robert Corbin and his party, saying that the People’s National Congress Reform is now at a state where it is desperately clutching at straws. As it relates to Corbin’s charges that the Administration is in cahoots with criminals, Ramotar said that the PNCR must explain a damning recorded conversation, purportedly between one of the party’s executives and a former Commissioner of Police. The PPP General Secretary pointed specifically to a section of the recording where the individual said to be PNCR executive thanked the person believed to be the Top Cop at the time, for allegedly turning away from an issue, but it had reached a stage where the facts were emanating and as such he (Top Cop) could not turn a blind eye anymore. Ramotar stressed that the party must also explain why they never made a pronouncement when eight persons were mercilessly shot to death on the East Bank of Demerara. On the issue that Corbin raised with regard to Buxton having thriving businesses in the community such as factories, Ramotar said that when the current administration took office in 1992, none of the factories was operable. He said that it was while the PNC was at the helm that the once thriving factories and businesses failed, and as such, it was the policies of the PNC that caused the village to deteriorate. Ramotar said that the current administration by its investments nationwide, not just in Buxton, which is causing the livelihood of Guyanese to be significantly improved. He stated that his party is surprised that political forces are once again trying to blame the PPP and government for the criminal seizure of Buxton following the infamous 2002 jailbreak. Ramotar is of the opinion that, “anyone vaguely familiar with Guyana’s political scene and those who have been following developments in that period must know that the only Party that could have encouraged such a takeover of that village by criminals was the PNCR.” He claims that the PNCR was the only political party that frequented Buxton in that time and many of the leaders were actually rubbing shoulders with the criminals who used the village as its base. “Few of those making hysterical noises now said anything of the abuse that many ordinary Buxtonians had to face at the hands of the politically sponsored criminals who took over the village. Many Buxtonians were gunned down in cold blood, women raped, and there was the burning of homes of persons in the village who dared to utter any word of displeasure. This took place amidst the resounding silence of the PNCR and some others in the opposition.” Corbin, in response to Ramotar, had slammed the PPP executive’s sentiments saying that he abd his party were trying to rewrite history and challenged him and President Jagdeo to, “put or shut up,” as it relates to the criminal links. Corbin had charged that there was state sponsored killings and that the government was linked to Roger Khan and the death squad that was dubbed the “Phantom squad”. He posited that “no amount of meandering or Government propaganda will fool the people of Buxton and right-thinking Guyanese” who witnessed what he called the reign of terror unleashed on the nation by the PPP/C Government, and “more specifically the Jagdeo regime in association with Roger Khan.” Corbin stated that Ramotar and the PPP should first come clean on the murder of Shaka Blair, Ronald Waddell and the hundreds of Guyanese youths who became victims of the “phantom squad” headed by self-confessed drug kingpin, Shaheed Roger Khan, and “….Ramotar would also have to explain why President Jagdeo resisted all the calls from the PNCR and the Joint Opposition Political Parties for an independent investigation or Inquiry into the criminal violence on the East Coast of Demerara since the infamous jail break.” Corbin said that the beneficiary of the crime spree from the 2002 jailbreak until the incarceration of Khan, “has been none other than Khan himself and the PPP/C, who used the opportunity for political mileage rather than guarantee the security of Guyanese citizens.” |
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