{"id":559,"date":"2009-11-29T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=559"},"modified":"2009-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T23:04:01","slug":"afc-again-points-out-govt-failures-in-trinidad-express-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"AFC again points out govt failures in Trinidad Express ad (Stabroek News)"},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC again points out govt failures in Trinidad Express ad<\/a><\/h1>\n
By Stabroek staff<\/a> | November 28, 2009 in Local News<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n

The Alliance for Change (AFC) has again taken its dissatisfaction with government to the international stage with a full-page advertisement in today\u2019s edition of the Trinidad Express.<\/p>\n

The advertisement, an \u201cupdated report card on the Government of Guyana\u201d, is directed at Commonwealth Heads of Government and Delegations. According to the AFC, \u201cthe signs are there, Guyana\u2019s democracy is failing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The first in a list of eight complaints in the advertisement is the failed promise President Bharrat Jagdeo had made during the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago in April that freedom of information legislation would be introduced in Guyana in two months. The AFC added that it is shameful that after some 17 years of PPP rule in Guyana, the monopoly control of radio by that government still continues.<\/p>\n

The opposition party said that even after revelations were made in a US court implicating a government minister of complicity in killings by a \u201cphantom\u201d force, President Jagdeo refuses to accept a public call for an independent investigation. Similarly, it said that no inquiry has been held into the numerous killings by the security forces or allegations of government\u2019s links to narcotic gangs.<\/p>\n

Parliamentary reform measures recommended by the Commonwealth and which gained parliamentary approval are not being implemented in Guyana, the advertisement said. Its fifth complaint is that it has been eight years since the Guyana constitution was amended to introduce a Public Procurement Commission to ensure transparency and accountability of government spending, but this commission is yet to be established.<\/p>\n

The political party said also that a desperately needed Security Sector Reform Programme, funded by the British Government, has been abandoned leaving the Guyanese people in peril, while the Head of State announced the presence of terrorists engaging the government in Guyana at a November, 2009 press conference.<\/p>\n

The AFC concluded by stating that recent revelations of the badly burnt and tortured body of a 15-year-old boy held in police custody not only shocked the Guyanese public but also revealed that \u201ctorture has become a standard interrogation tool in Guyana\u201d.<\/p>\n

An AFC ad had appeared in the same publication during the April Summit of the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFC again points out govt failures in Trinidad Express ad By Stabroek staff | November 28, 2009 in Local News\u00a0 The Alliance for Change (AFC) has again taken its dissatisfaction with government to the international stage with a full-page advertisement in today\u2019s edition of the Trinidad Express. The advertisement, an \u201cupdated report card on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","category-latestnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}