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CSJAD News 2018 NOVEMBER.P65 ee ee e hh hh h TT TT T NEW ROAD CENTRE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT INC. Mt. Roraima https://sites.google.com/site/centresocialdevelopment VOL. 6 NO. 11 NEWsletter NOVEMBER 2018 APNU retains control of Georgetown President Granger By: Svetlana Marshall diagnosed with The A Partnership for National Unity (FPTP), the city’s Returning Officer Non-Hodgkin (APNU) retained control of Guyana’s Duarte Hetsberger disclosed that APNU Lymphoma capita, Georgetown, collecting 21 of the won a total of 21 seats from a total of 30 30 seats on the 30-member council. The while the PPP/C secured seven (7) seats. -undergoing treat- party achieved this by winning 12 of the The AFC – the party that forms a bloc of ment overseas 15 constituencies. the current gov- Its rival, People’s ernment but President David Granger has been di- Progressive Party opted to go it agnosed in Cuba with Non-Hodgkin Civic however, im- alone during this Lymphoma and underwent surgery and proved its showing round of elec- began a second phase of treatment to- by grabbing three tions — man- day, according to a statement from the constituencies and aged two seats. Guyana Embassy in Havana, Cuba. collecting another Nine of the The statement said that the President four seats through APNU’s seats Granger is expected to make a full recov- the Proportional Min. Volda Lawrence talking with the press came from the ery under the supervision of his doctors. Representation mechanism of the Local Proportional Representation (PR) system According to the Mayo Clinic, Non- Government system. The Alliance For while 12 were garnered from the First Hodgkin’s lymphoma is cancer that origi- Change (AFC) won two PR seats as well. Past the Post system. PPP/C received nates in the lymphatic system, the disease- Approximately 119,374 eligible vot- four seats from the PR system and three fighting net- ers were expected to cast their ballots in under the First-Past-The-Post compo- work spread the Municipality of Georgetown but by the nent. AFC won two seats, both under the throughout the close of poll, a meagre 28.3 per cent of PR component of the elections. body. In non- the voting population had done so, con- In offering his breakdown in the pres- Hodgkin’s firming reports of a low voters’ turn out. ence of the Guyana Elections Commis- lymphoma, In announcing the election results for sion (GECOM) Public Relations Officer tumours de- the Municipality of Georgetown in the (PRO) Yolanda Ward, the returning of- velop from mixed system of Proportional Represen- ficer disclosed that a total of 28,436 valid lymphocytes - tation (PR) and First-Past-The-Post votes were cast and a total See page.......2 a type of white _____________________________________________ blood cell. Pres. David Granger Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is more The Guyana Holocaust common than the other general type of lymphoma — Hodgkin lymphoma. Many By: Peeping Tom different subtypes of non-Hodgkin’s lym- Sunday, November 18, 2018 marks Either the GDF had a problem esti- phoma exist. Diffuse large B-cell lym- the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown mating the numbers of dead they saw, or phoma and follicular lymphoma are among Holocaust. More than 900 Americans there was an attempt at misleading the the most common subtypes. died on Guyanese soil after committing Americans. It was later discovered that Advances in diagnosis and treatment what is believed to be a mass murder- more than 900 persons lay lead at of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have helped suicide. They were forced/coerced into Jonestown. improve the prognosis for people with this drinking cyanide-laced Kool Aid. Forbes Burnham, soon after learning disease. Forty years onwards, Guyana still car- about the holocaust, established a Task wishes all ries the shame of what took place. Force headed by Hamilton Green to deal CSJAD Jonestown was part of the police-state with the problem. A number of senior gov- its supporters a which was created by the Forbes ernment officials were part of this Task ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ Burnham administration. Its existence was Force and some of them are still alive and Within This Issue kept secret from most Guyanese who, therefore would be able to provide infor- Embassy statement...........................2 when the holocaust occurred, questioned mation on that period. Just my opinion ................................3 where exactly in Guyana it was located. A number of US passports were re- Commentary....................................4 Two days after the holocaust (the covered from Jonestown and handed The coming OECD blacklist...............5 American Embassy in Guyana described over to the police. The United States Em- Facing the facts................................6 the event in their diplomatic correspon- bassy was interested in determining the APNU+AFC coalition has collapsed...7 dence), a top local foreign service official identity of those who died in the massa- Voicing concerns..............................8 informed the Embassy that the Guyana cre and made a plea to one Task Force Mahdia declared 10th town................9 Defence Force had gone into the area and member to have the passports returned. Blacks rebuked PNC, Indians...........10 seen about 300-400 persons dead. See page.............10 No confidence motion......................11 received 201 votes in the case of AFC’s Renata Chuck A Sang; APNU retains control of Georgetown 547 votes in the case of PPP/C’s Patrick De Santos and 89 votes went to Independent Candidate Louis Nestor, Indepen- (Continued from cover page) of 432 were rejected ballot papers. dent Candidate Michael Williams 58 and Independent Candi- He explained that in the PR component of the Local Gov- date Phyllis Jordan, 106 votes. ernment Elections, the APNU won the hearts of voters’ secur- Constituency One was also won by a candidate of the ing the majority of votes – 18,127. The People’s Progressive APNU. Ubraj Narine who secured 816 votes defeating AFC’s Party/Civic (PPP/C) came in second with 7,050 votes while Natoya Gibson (293), PPP/C’s (559) and two independent the Alliance For Change (AFC) raked in 3,059 votes. The GNS candidates who both got below 150 votes each. Party secured a meagre 94 votes and the United Republican While her colleagues managed to pull the majority of the Party (URP), 106 votes. votes in their constituencies, sitting councillor Andrea Marks Meanwhile, in the First-Past-The-Post component of the suffered a major loss after she was defeated by PPP/C’s Param elections, the voters’ confidence in Patricia Chase-Green was Persaud in Constituency Six. Persaud 1,279 votes while Marks clearly expressed, despite being on the firing line for the chaos came sharply behind with 1,066 votes, though not enough to at City Hall. In her constituency – No. 12, Chase-Green – an return to council. AFC’s Sylvester Shim only got 148 votes. APNU member – came up against AFC’s Bryan Nobrega, PPP/ PPP’s Dimitri Ali won a seat on the council after pulling C’s Maxine Padmore, and independent candidate Hubert 849 votes in Constituency Three. APNU’s Astell Collins se- Maloney. The mayor collected 2,212 of the votes. Nobrega cured 528 votes but not enough to defeat his PPP/C contender, managed to secure only 662 votes while Padmore got 92 votes. however, he did receive more votes than AFC’s Patricia Helwig The independent candidate had 34 ballots cast in his favour. who got 65 votes and the two independent candidates who When the new council is sworn into office, the Deputy both received below 90 votes. Mayor Akeem Peter will take his place around the horseshoe PPP/C also won in Constituency Two. table at City Hall having outdone himself in Monday’s elections. ________________________ Peter, who contested in Constituency Five, secured 1,473 vot- ers while his contenders – AFC’s Vashti Harris, PPP/C’s Dion Embassy of the Cooperative Republic Younge and Independent Candidate James Hermanstein, got of Guyana 171, 419 and 295 votes respectively. APNU’s Gregory Fraser will also be returning to the coun- The Embassy of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in cil. Fraser, who is no stranger to the local political scene in the the Republic of Cuba wishes to make the following official State- city, raked in 1,207 votes thrashing his contenders. AFC’s ment on the presence of His Excellency, Brigadier David Arthur Patricia Marks received only 210 votes and PPP/C’s Lurlene Granger, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, in James 200 votes. the Republic of Cuba. This time around, Constituency No. 11 will be represented His Excellency, the President, arrived in Havana on Tues- by Yvonne Ferguson, who raked in 1,196 of the voters in her day, October 30, initially, for a medical investigation which he area. AFC’s Quincy Alleyne managed to rake in only 170 while deemed necessary because of an unusual physical discomfort. PPP/C’s Mark Persaud secured 760 votes but it wasn’t enough He was received by a Cuban Medical Team which commenced to defeat Ferguson. URP’s Jason Herbert got 32 votes while the first phase of medical examination. former city councilor Eon Andrews, who had decided to go it Subsequent to a series of medical tests, the President was alone as an independent candidate, got only 193 votes. diagnosed as suffering from Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and was First time candidate Denroy Tudor, who contested under placed in the Centro de Investigaciones Medico Quirurgicas the APNU umbrella, outshone the others and pulled the major- (CIMEQ) on Thursday, November 1, where he underwent a ity of the votes. Tudor raked in 1,436 votes in Constituency surgical procedure.
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