David Granger, the PNCR presidential candidate has summed up President Bharrat Jagdeo’s character attack on him as the PPP/C engaging in diversionary tactics to conceal its 18-year record in office, and he is preparing for sustained attacks as the elections approach.
Granger, who had earlier refrained from responding to Jagdeo’s severe criticism of him, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday, saying that President Jagdeo descended into the attack at Babu John, Port Mourant because he had no real answers to give the people as it relates to the problems plaguing the Corentyne area.
Granger said the issues at Corentyne include the sugar industry and contraband smuggling, in addition to unemployment. “What Jagdeo needed to tell the