By Gaulbert Sutherland in Lethem
Lamenting the underdeveloped state of the Rupununi, and saying that education is the way out of poverty, APNU+AFC presidential candidate David Granger last evening pledged to construct technical, agricultural and home economics institutes in Region 9 should the alliance win Monday’s general elections and also pledged to resolve Amerindian land issues.
The alliance’s series of major rallies swung into Lethem, Region 9 last evening and addressing hundreds of Rupununi residents from across the sprawling savannahs, Granger pledged that the land problems that he has heard from across various regions will be resolved under his government.
Granger, who began to speak as a light drizzle sprinkled the crowd of about 2000 persons, joked that he heard of the drought the region was experiencing and brought the rain. He warned the Rupununians gathered who came from as far as Achwib in the Deep South about 140 miles away from