A meeting between loggers, farmers and Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, in Linden today has drawn the ire of Region Ten Chairman, Mortimer Mingo, who called it a way of “manufacturing” support for the PPP rally to be held close to the meeting site, a contention that was rejected by Persaud.
The farmers’ meeting is scheduled to be held at Burnham Drive in Wismar while the rally will be held on the same road, but a quarter of a mile away, Stabroek News was told. Persaud will commission the Region 10 Wood Drying Complex and interact with loggers, farmers and residents of Region 10 with the event scheduled to begin at 2 pm. The rally is set for 5 pm.
In a letter published in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, Mingo wrote that the eve of what has been advertised as a