As he enters the contest for Leader of the People’s National Congress, former Guyana Water Inc Chief Executive Officer Richard Van West Charles wants to be judged on his character and experience and not that of his deceased father-in-law and party founder, President Linden Forbes Sampson (LFS) Burnham.
A licensed physician who worked in many countries and for years at the World Health and Pan-American Health Organizations, Van West Charles said that when Burnham was President, his [Van West-Charles] election to the executive of the PNC and his positions in government was never through nepotism but his qualifications.