Govt will ensure economic success of Guyana is guaranteed – AG tells diaspora

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Government is working every day to ensure that the economic success of Guyana is guaranteed, according to Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Anil Nandlall, SC. He said this while addressing an event called “Guyana Day” in Florida, USA, in observance of the country’s 56th Independence Anniversary.

In order to move the country forward, he told scores of attendees that the Government needs their continued support. With Guyana producing oil and gas, the Attorney General pointed out that the country is growing at perhaps the fastest and highest rate in the entire world.
And while Guyana is creating trade linkages with countries in the Caribbean and other parts of the world, he told the Guyanese diaspora that despite them being away, they remain an important developmental partner. The Government, he assured, is also doing its part.
“You have a Government that is working every day to ensure that the economic success of our country is guaranteed to advance the social welfare of people, to create a safe environment. The Government is not oblivious to the crime situation and every single day we are pursuing different strategies, different technologies, and different programmes to address the crime.”
“We are transforming many aspects of our country to ensure that we have top-class public health facilities. We are also working to ensure that our people feel a sense of togetherness. Every single day we are working to forge national unity because we believe that our country cannot progress if our people are divided…” Nandlall said.

He told them “We want you to be part of Guyana’s success story, while you have been away from Guyana, you have been part and parcel of our trials and tribulations and you must become also part and parcel of our success.” He, however, pointed out that the oil and gas sector will eventually exhaust and for this reason, the Government is using the proceeds from the industry to ensure that it develops a diversified and strong economy.
Nandlall added that the other sectors will not be neglected, noting that the Government will continue to invest heavily in agro-processing where tremendous power lies.
“This generation of Guyanese is perhaps the most fortunate because, for the first time, we have a rare opportunity to deliver that potential for Guyana… that we know Guyana is possessed of. Since in the 1960s we were told that Guyana has the potential to become the food basket of the Caribbean. For the first time in our history, we are now endowed with the economic power and the financial strength to deliver on that potential and we are now in the process of making Guyana the real food basket of the Caribbean, of Florida, of New York, Toronto and wherever the Guyanese diaspora continues to flourish,” the Attorney General continued.
Moreover, he described the five-year reign from 2015 to 2020 of the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) as the most unconstitutional rule in the history of the modern Caribbean.
He said that was a period “Where the Government repeatedly violated the Constitution, violated the rule of law, insulted the Judiciary, and imposed policies and taxation that were crippling on the Guyanese people.” He also spoke about the well-remembered 2020 national elections.
“And when elections came and the people came out in their numbers to vote against the oppression and to vote against the incompetence and to vote against the corruption… you witnessed first-hand the battle that we had to go through for five long months as they [APNU/AFC] attempted to defraud the electoral results,” Nandlall said.
According to him, when APNU/AFC realised it had lost the election “we saw perhaps the most unprecedented series of events ever witnessed in the western hemisphere over the last half of a century by a group of people including those at GECOM attempting to steal Government.”
He nevertheless thanked the Guyanese diaspora for standing with the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the people of Guyana to ensure that democracy prevailed.
“You give us great strength and inspiration on your Facebook page, and on social media. You used whatever resources you had to make strategic contact with people in the USA who aided us to help fight to protect our democracy. On behalf of the Government and the people of Guyana, to thank you tremendously for your support over the years and more importantly for your unwavering commitment, and dedication you gave to use during those 2020 elections…”
Nandlall assured those gathered that the events that transpired then, can never return because the Government is working every day to put systems in place to protect democracy, the rule of law, the Constitution, the country and to protect and advance the economy.