APNU+AFC blasts Government over latest vaccination measure; Calls for emergency meeting with stakeholders

In a statement last evening, the main opposition said the updated measure runs contrary to all the tenets of personal liberties including an individual's freedom of conscience as enshrined in Article 147 of the Constitution.

APNU+AFC blasts Government over latest vaccination measure; Calls for emergency meeting with stakeholders

The Opposition APNU+AFC has described as authoritarian the latest move by the Government that demands that persons visiting all public buildings including private businesses and places of worship be vaccinated against COVID-19 or show proof of a negative COVID-19 test result.

In a statement last evening, the main opposition said the updated measure runs contrary to all the tenets of personal liberties including an individual’s freedom of conscience as enshrined in Article 147 of the  Constitution.

APNU+AFC Chief Legal Representative in the Parliament, Senior Counsel Roysdale Forde said the measure which was brought into force on Saturday represents the erosion of the rights of the citizens and imposes executive tyranny on the citizens of Guyana.

He said it also underlines that the PPP regime remains without a plan to combat the spread of COVID-19 and is implementing ad hoc, arbitrary and whimsical measures designed to advance profiteering and which completely disregard the rights of citizens.

Forde noted that Countries throughout CARICOM have pointedly refused to adopt measures that the PPP is bullish in implementing.

The latest gazetted measure

The Opposition has issued a call on the PPP government to immediately rescind the measure which it sees as unconstitutional and immediately engage in an emergency all stakeholders forum to chart a prudent and responsible National COVID-19 Management Plan.

The APNU+AFC said it is ready and willing to contribute.

“We call on the PPP to take note of the decision of the Prime Minister of Jamaica, who has engaged the Leader of the Opposition there to meet on the issue of the rampant spread of COVID in that country. We call on the PPP to follow suit post haste.  The PPP must immediately cease and desist from the wild and reckless approach it has adopted which only benefits its acolytes and financiers and leaves the people of the nation isolated, locked out, and vulnerable”, the APNU+AFC statement said.

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