The Alliance for Change (AFC), a key constituent in the previous APNU+AFC Coalition government, has described the recent criticism of its members Khemraj Ramjattan, David Patterson and Dr. Vincent Adams in a Department for Public Information (DPI) news item as duplicitous.
The AFC also described the PPP/C Government and Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo as “spineless” and “supine” on their dealings with ExxonMobil.
In a press release dated August 23, the AFC said the DPI’s statement gave the impression that former President David Granger granted an extension without conditions in July 2020 to ExxonMobil, which he did not, but rather “… a conditional process to recalibrate or deduct time after a review, where obviously Exxon had to show cause. This first show-cause was to be done in September 2020.” The Granger correspondence to Exxon, said the AFC, provides for a “quarterly” assessment to determine any adjustments. The release queried, “Where is the documentation of the quarterly assessments (under the PPP/C government) to arrive at this decision per the Granger letter?”