For more than 27 years, the people of Region 10 have been tricked into giving their votes to political parties, specifically, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the APNU+AFC coalition administration, in exchange for broken promises of betterment.
In fact, Change Guyana, a new political party, emphatically asserts that the Region has been trapped in a wicked cycle of promises made by the political majors.
But if given a chance, the newcomer which is led by Pegasus Hotelier, Robert Badal and Chartered Accountant, Nigel Hinds, is assuring that it would break this vicious cycle of false hope as it insisted that there would be a strategic plan for the enrichment of Region 10 inhabitants.
Elaborating on Change Guyana’s position at a recent press conference, Hinds noted some of the broken promises of the PPP based on its 2011 manifesto. After retaining power in the 2011 elections, Hinds noted that the PPP failed to promote growth in the bauxite industry, facilitate major investment by the bauxite companies in increased capacity, ensure the construction of new kilns, and encourage the exports of new products, such as mullite and proppants.
As for the APNU+AFC administration, the Chartered Accountant noted that it failed to modernize the bauxite industry, invite and support foreign investment from reputable and known multinationals to develop the aluminum industry, create new jobs alongside policies to guarantee workers’ rights and welfare, and develop 200,000 hectares of the intermediate savannahs for lemons, limes, oranges, cattle, legumes (beans and peas), vegetables as the country’s second frontier for agricultural development.
Hinds further noted that there are five other manifesto promises that the government did not honour, while noting that these include the development of Tiger Falls and other hydroelectric potential in the region to facilitate industrial development and the establishment of a University of Guyana campus in Linden which offers courses relevant to the developmental needs of Regions Seven, Eight, Nine and 10.
Considering the foregoing, Hinds commented that the manifesto promises from the two old parties are “like colorful sacks, with glittery ornaments on the outside, with very little substance on the inside to improve the quality of lives from high levels of poverty…”
The Prime Ministerial Candidate concluded, “We must change this extremely underdeveloped state of affairs in Region 10 to one of inclusive and accelerated economic development of Region 10.”
This he said, is exactly what Change Guyana intends to do.
