{"id":46344,"date":"2018-05-25T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/?p=46344"},"modified":"2018-05-25T10:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:37:39","slug":"consensus-with-coalition-partners-being-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/consensus-with-coalition-partners-being-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"Consensus with coalition partners  being sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Granger tells PNC General Council Meeting<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s National Congress Reform (PNCR) held its second General Council Meeting for the year on Saturday, May 19, to reconnect with the party base, but, according to information coming out of the congress a prevailing theme was how to resist the parliamentary Opposition\u2019s criticism of its various policies.<br \/>\nAccording to the PNCR in a statement to the media, Party Chairman, Attorney General Basil Williams urged the party to be ready to put up with the resistance from the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46345\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Members-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Members-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Members-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Members-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The head table from left: Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence, Social Protection Minister Amna Ally, President David Granger and Attorney General Basil Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn his welcome remarks, the Party Chairman spoke of the 60 years of light that the PNC has provided in this multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multireligious country of Guyana and reminded members of the leader\u2019s congress speech in which he said that members must stand up for our party and defend it.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Chairman said that the task of members is to stand up and defend the party, the Government and the coalition. He then proceeded to list the many achievements of the Government over the last three years,\u201d the party also stated.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, in her report to the General Council, PNCR General Secretary Amna Ally brought the Council up to date on the state of the party and the work of the Party Secretariat over the last quarter. According to the release, the focus of her report was on membership, achievements, Local Government Elections, projections and other related party affairs.<br \/>\nPresident David Granger delivered the feature address, in which, according to the release, he highlighted daily challenges being faced by the Government from \u201csections of the media\u201d. In addition, the President\u2019s address had a cultural aspect.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Party Leader spoke on the celebration and importance of Chinese and Portuguese Arrival Days, and also that of Indian Arrival Day, African Emancipation Day and Amerindian Heritage Month. The leader told General Council that Guyanese were blessed to be living in a country with such diverse cultures and ethnicities; peoples from all over the continents of Earth, living, mixing, loving and working together.<br \/>\n\u201cThe way forward is based on certain principles, right now we are engaged in discussions with both the Alliance For Change and the other partners in the APNU \u2026 seeking consensus,\u201d Granger was quoted as saying.\u201d<br \/>\nIn addition to the addresses from party leaders, reports for the last quarter were also presented to the General Council by representatives of the National Congress of Women (NCW); Guyana Youth and Student Movement (GYSM); North American Region (NAR); Georgetown District of the PNCR and the 10 administrative regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026Granger tells PNC General Council Meeting The People\u2019s National Congress Reform (PNCR) held its second General Council Meeting for the year on Saturday, May 19, to reconnect with the party base, but, according to information coming out of the congress a prevailing theme was how to resist the parliamentary Opposition\u2019s criticism of its various policies. According to the PNCR in a statement to the media, Party Chairman, Attorney General Basil Williams urged the party to be ready to put up with the resistance from the People\u2019s Progressive Party (PPP). \u201cIn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Members.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46346,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46344\/revisions\/46346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guyanatimesinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}