{"id":5384,"date":"2015-03-01T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2015-03-01T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T15:25:41","slug":"apnuafc-thanks-guyanese-for-overwhelming-mash-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"APNU+AFC thanks Guyanese for overwhelming Mash support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN \u2013 The APNU AFC thanks the Guyanese people for their<\/p>\n<p>tremendous support of the APNU AFC Unity Mash Band on Mashramani day last<\/p>\n<p>Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The warmth, love and support from the people along the Mash route was as<\/p>\n<p>overwhelming as it was encouraging. The people were eager to embrace, shake<\/p>\n<p>hands and take photos with the leaders, most especially President-In-Waiting<\/p>\n<p>David Granger and AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan.<\/p>\n<p>Other leaders who were also hailed by the wide cross section of Guyanese<\/p>\n<p>included Basil Williams, Cathy Hughes, Joe Harmon, Valerie Garrido-Lowe,<\/p>\n<p>Annette Ferguson, James Bond, Trevor Williams, Christopher Jones, David<\/p>\n<p>Patterson and Winston Felix.<\/p>\n<p>The response from the large crowd in the National Park was phenomenal with<\/p>\n<p>sustained applause and cheering for the duration of the two laps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are truly heartened by the support from the people. They were eager to<\/p>\n<p>participate with us, join in the band and tell us how supportive they are. The<\/p>\n<p>people want a change in the way their national affairs are being managed and<\/p>\n<p>they are energized by the formation of the coalition,\u201d Granger said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that incredible experience it confirmed to us as leaders that the formation<\/p>\n<p>of a unity government is precisely what the people want and we are satisfied that<\/p>\n<p>we have set aside differences and acted in their interests,\u201d Granger added.<\/p>\n<p>Ramjattan said afterwards that it was a demonstration of national unity in its<\/p>\n<p>finest form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we saw here today, from the time we got onto the Mash route was a<\/p>\n<p>demonstrate of national unity with leaders and ordinary people of all ethnicities<\/p>\n<p>and backgrounds coming together to show the people of Guyana that we can all<\/p>\n<p>live harmoniously as one and that we can achieve and progress in a united way,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramjattan said.<\/p>\n<p>APNU+AFC is confident that the support from the ordinary masses of Guyanese<\/p>\n<p>will continue to expand and multiply as we head closer to the May 11th General<\/p>\n<p>Elections.<\/p>\n<p>-ENDS-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GEORGETOWN \u2013 The APNU AFC thanks the Guyanese people for their tremendous support of the APNU AFC Unity Mash Band on Mashramani day last Monday. The warmth, love and support from the people along the Mash route was as overwhelming as it was encouraging. The people were eager to embrace, shake hands and take photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Adphoto2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-1oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}