Khemraj Ramjattan is the new leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), while Nigel Hughes is the Chairman.
Both ran unopposed for these posts at the AFC’s Third National Conference today.
Ramjattan, who was the party’s presidential candidate at last year’s general elections, replaces former leader Raphael Trotman. He is one of the three founders of the party, along with Trotman and the late Sheila Holder, and had been serving as the Chairman recently.
Hughes, meanwhile, is a prominent attorney who has served on the AFC’s National Executive Committee along with his wife, AFC MP Cathy Hughes. He was a standout during the AFC election’s campaign for delivering powerful speeches and more recently he has led the party’s response to the slaying of three men in Linden, after police opened fire on protestors there. Hughes is also a former President of the Guyana Bar Association.
Results for the other executive positions are expected later this evening.
