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PPP rejects invitation to Independence Day ceremony

May 25, 2015 6:26 pm Category: latest news A+ / A-

DSC_4731[www.inewsguyana.com] – The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has rejected an invitation to take part in the celebrations organised for Guyana’s 49th Anniversary of Independence set for Tuesday May 26.

The Party said it will will be observing the Guyana’s Independence anniversary on May 26th, at a grand public meeting to be held at Port Mourant, Corentyne.         

“The Party fully considered the invitation and has decided that in light of a series of unsavoury, undemocratic and unpopular developments over the past week and today that it will not participate in the wreath-laying event,” a release from Freedom House said on Monday.

According to the Party, on its assumption to office in 1992, the PPP brought back the observance of Independence to the status of a national event and the celebration of a national holiday.

“Since then the anniversary has been observed every year by the PPP/C administration and the people of Guyana at all ten administrative regions of the Republic. It was the PNC regime that downgraded the anniversary to a non-event relegating it to virtual obscurity throughout the land,” the release stated.         

PPP is claiming that the defacto (President) Granger-led administration’s” wreath laying event is therefore the mere re-branding of the event against the background of a number of undemocratic developments.”

This year’s Independence celebrations are a deviation from the norm with a wreath laying ceremony scheduled for the Independence Arch on Brickdam and a grand celebration at the National Stadium on May 26.

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Pump 'broke' in Essequibo...100s of acres of rice land flooded. Raj Singh just dropped the a bombshell on new govt. PPP holding their own celebrations. The next round of tit-for-tat starts. Poor people will be the losers.

FM
Originally Posted by TK:

Pump 'broke' in Essequibo...100s of acres of rice land flooded. Raj Singh just dropped the a bombshell on new govt. PPP holding their own celebrations. The next round of tit-for-tat starts. Poor people will be the losers.

Goa fix it nuh.  Go help alleviate poverty, don't just shout and beat your chest for a far at what another has "not" done.  Or are you only good at alleviating poverty on a "chalk board".

FM
Originally Posted by TK:

Pump 'broke' in Essequibo...100s of acres of rice land flooded. Raj Singh just dropped the a bombshell on new govt. PPP holding their own celebrations. The next round of tit-for-tat starts. Poor people will be the losers.

fascinating . . .

FM
Originally Posted by redux:
Originally Posted by TK:

Pump 'broke' in Essequibo...100s of acres of rice land flooded. Raj Singh just dropped the a bombshell on new govt. PPP holding their own celebrations. The next round of tit-for-tat starts. Poor people will be the losers.

fascinating . . .

Wow, you are fascinated very easily.

FM

This is the kind of attitude that Guyanese are good at. Sure there is a dispute over the election results but that should not come in the way of celebrating something of national import. They can learn from America how to do it right. The two sides may have had differences about Dubya's involvement in Iraq but whenever the efforts of the soldiers are mentioned, both sides acknowledge it. The PPP should attend the celebrations. Especially since the PNC killed it prior to the PPP resurrecting it in 1992.  

FM

The disappointment continues. The PPP had better have a change in attitude very quickly or else it will never be able to attract support from the other side if it slips. And it risks being left behind by its own support base. They cannot keep their supporters backward and unthinking forever.

FM

Guess the PPP dust off CBJ play book.  They view the GoG as illegitimate but that has its limits.  PPP needs a serious rethink.  This will not be easy with the current batch of leaders.  Their base will stick with them but that will not be enough at election time.

FM
Originally Posted by ksazma:

This is the kind of attitude that Guyanese are good at. Sure there is a dispute over the election results but that should not come in the way of celebrating something of national import. They can learn from America how to do it right. The two sides may have had differences about Dubya's involvement in Iraq but whenever the efforts of the soldiers are mentioned, both sides acknowledge it. The PPP should attend the celebrations. Especially since the PNC killed it prior to the PPP resurrecting it in 1992.  

In all Fairness the PNC consistently did their own thing and always rudely dismissed any invitation from the PPP Govt.

Nehru

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