GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has rejected claims that the federal government’s aggressive outreaches are nothing greater than election gimmicks, arguing that the Individuals’s Progressive Occasion/Civic (PPP/C) Administration has maintained a constant presence in communities nationwide.
Jagdeo, who additionally serves because the PPP’s basic secretary, reminded us that since 2020, even in the course of the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities officers, together with President Irfaan Ali, have actively reached out to residents.
Just lately, the president carried out a two-day outreach in Berbice County.
Talking on that exact engagement, Jagdeo famous that these outreaches have been extra community-based, shifting away from large-scale infrastructural complaints to land disputes, drainage points, and individualized points.
“This isn’t dysfunction,” he stated in response to critics throughout a information convention. “It’s a signal of a authorities that’s ready to take heed to the folks…as a result of we care. Even after we can’t resolve the issues, we pay attention.”
“The important thing factor is that we’re the one ones who’ve been doing this constantly…in 2020…in the midst of COVID, we had been on the bottom… 2021, we had been on the bottom, 2022, we had been on the bottom, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Which political get together has achieved this or any particular person in these years?” he added.
Jagdeo additionally criticized media narratives that painting public listening excursions as indicators of inefficiency, arguing that this attitude is elitist and disconnected from the realities of improvement.
“We don’t thoughts spending our time [on the ground] fairly than sitting down and sipping espresso in Georgetown and pontificating about improvement. That’s not how improvement works,” the vp stated.
