In an effort to garner in-depth information regarding issues facing citizens across Guyana, the Alliance for Change (AFC) says that it has embarked on what it describes as a “listening and grounding campaign”.
In a release on Wednesday, the AFC said that these informal listening sessions will take place everywhere – in the markets, corner shops, community grounds, citizens’ bridges, yards, and in the hinterland and riverine communities, “even through deplorable roads, dilapidated bridges, overgrown bushes, floods and impassable mountainous terrain to engage citizens in issues that affect them.”
AFC Leader, Nigel Hughes, it stated, has made it clear that this outreach has no interest on reaching electorates from one particular ethnic group but instead, is cross-sectional. “The AFC is political party, competing nationally in every square inch of this country, in every village, in every city, in every municipality, we don’t approach it on the basis of splitting votes because we do not recognize that people belong ethnically to anybody and we are going to meet everybody as far South as Guns, as far East as the Corriverton and Moleson Creek, as far West as Baramita or Barima to understand what our citizens, are experiencing at every socio-economic level,” Hughes was quoted as saying.