November 28, 2024

Georgetown, Guyana
For immediate release to all media houses

PRESS RELEASE

AFC Condemns the Indignity Heaped on Teachers and Others in Sharing of Cash Grant.

Recently on December 23, 2024, the nation viewed, in absolute shock and horror, the ghastly sight of hundreds of teachers crushed together, and waiting to be "gifted" their $100,000 grant. There was everything wrong with those images, and they should be shocking to every Guyanese man, woman and child. This is 2024, and not 1834.

These teachers, all already on the government’s electronic payroll system, could easily have received this grant in the same manner as they receive their salaries and benefits. Instead, in what can only be described as decision that was calculated to present the very image of supplicant, needy, desperate, and humiliated persons, teachers, and mostly women, these Guyanese citizens were made to present themselves, in herd-like fashion, crammed against each other in a most disrespectful and undignified manner.

We are informed that very shortly, other categories of persons, including pensioners, will be subjected to the same humiliating experience as they are expected to similarly gather to receive their pay-out. The question can be asked, is receiving this $1000,000 of taxpayers’ money worth the humiliation and indignity one has to experience?

We can contrast these images with others, also deliberately promoted, of other government workers happily and calmly receiving their grants in the presence of smiling ministers and senior government officials. This is a clear message that "friends, favourites and families" of the PPP are held to a different and supposedly "better" standard. There is no "One Guyana".

The AFC warns that these social and political games and experiments that the PPP is engaging in will have a boomerang effect. Instead of subjugating and making pliant those who are perceived to be non-supporters, it will breed deep resentment and receive condign rejection.
No one should have their dignity trampled upon like that, and the AFC calls on citizens of
Guyana to wake up, organise and be ready to remove this repressive regime from office in
2025. Dignity must be restored, better must come!
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