US ‘fact-finding’ team hears claims of discrimination, inequality at town hall meeting

By Antonio Dey

Discrimination, racism and economic exploitation were among the plights raised by those who turned up on Thursday at a Town Hall styled-meeting facilitated by a visiting US delegation currently in Guyana a fact-finding mission.

While the delegation met with a section of Civil Society and the APNU+AFC, the PPP/C government has insisted it will not meet with the visiting team as it considered it to be biased on favour of the opposition.

Cyril Walker, a Guyanese engineer who worked for several years in his native land and the United States told the 14-person delegation headed by President and Founder of the Organization of World Leaders, Dee Dawkins-Haigler and the audience that Guyana’s procurement laws are compromised as contracts are being awarded indiscriminately under the Ali government.