Guyana's Ambassador to the United States, Bayney Karran
Guyana’s Ambassador to the United States, Bayney Karran, is hoping that the upcoming general election in Guyana would demonstrate to the international community the country’s ability to strengthen democracy and organize elections in a peaceful, fair and transparent manner.
The ambassador expressed this desire in an interview with Guyana Times International from his embassy quarters in Washington DC. He also expressed hope that “both winners and losers would find the results acceptable, and the country can go back to work — people can go back to their normal lives after the elections are over with a renewed commitment to develop the country.”
Guyana is slated to hold general elections in August 2011, and the main parties contesting are on the campaign trail. The governing People’s Progressive Party is yet to name a presidential candidate from its list of five long-serving members who have expressed interest in that post – Donald Ramotar, Clement Rohee, Gail Teixeira, Ralph Ramkarran and Moses Nagamootoo. The 35 members of the PPP’s central executive committee are responsible for selecting the party’s presidential candidate. That committee is expected to meet this week to hear presentations by each of the five presidential-candidate hopefuls on their vision for the party and government, and why they think themselves suitable to lead the PPP Civic into the 2011 general election.
The People’s National Congress Reform, on the other hand, is slated to elect its presidential candidate on February 26, during that party’s special congress. The candidates vying for nomination to the post of presidential candidate are educationist Dr Faith Harding, economist Carl Greenidge, retired army Brigadier David Granger and attorneys-at-law Basil Williams and James Bond.
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