A Guyana anti-racism protest held in New York over the weekend which featured some top US congress representatives and APNU+AFC national and regional representatives has irked the Guyana Government with President Irfaan Ali today rejecting the statements made at the rally about racism in Guyana and his government.
In a statement issued by the President’s office this afternoon, President Ali described the protest as “deceitful and dishonest”, adding that it was filled with lies, hate, and race-baiting.
According to the President, nothing said at the rally will distract him from his work.
“I think that it is very deceitful, dishonorable and obstructionist that people would go to the extent that they went in telling lies; that the grant, the COVID grant, was not given to all the villages and all the people, that there’s discrimination in the education grant that’s been shared out.” The President was quoted as saying.
The President stopped short of naming Congressman Hakeem Jeffries who raised his own concerns about the situation in Guyana at the rally, but said he was surprised by the statements made.
“It is very concerning that you have persons who profess to have credibility enveloped in that type of behaviour, calling on time’s up for the Government, time’s up for an Ambassador… well then it has to be time’s up for CARICOM, time’s for the OAS, time’s up for the EU, time’s up for all the countries and all international bodies, the Carter Center, that supported the efforts to have a democratic environment here in Guyana and defeated the efforts of those who tried to rig an election and install themselves undemocratically in the country”, the President said.
The President’s statement today comes on the heels of a late Sunday night statement by the Prime Minister who also rejected the statements made at the rally which brought together thousands of Guyanese in the Brooklyn, New York area.
You must be logged in to post a comment Login