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The People’s National Congress Reform wishes to make its position clear on the matter involving Ms. Vanessa Kissoon, MP for over the past three months. There are two main issues. First, is the right of the Party’s General Secretary to enjoy free and unimpeded access to the Party’s property. Second, is the authority of the Central Executive Committee to make non-elected appointments. Continue reading The Case of Ms. Vanessa Kissoon, MP

The Guyana Chronicle’s front page headline published on the 28^th day of June 2014 and captioned “Williams’s objections about the legality of COI extension overruled” is grossly misleading. Continue reading PPP/C Government must have the humility to accept sound legal advice from the PNCR/APNU

On Monday 16^th June 2014, Guyanese once again observed the anniversary of the martyrdom of five (5) heroic sugar workers who sacrificed their lives in order that Guyanese workers, in general, and sugar workers, in particular, could enjoy better conditions of work from their employers. On this occasion, the People’s National Congress Reform joined the rest of the nation in remembering Lallabajee, Pooran, Harry (Jug), Surujbally and Rambarran.

The struggle of the sugar workers and the commemoration of the Enmore Martyrs has become a national occasion to rally and inspire. Regrettably, sixty six (66) years after their death, and thirty seven (37) years after the People’s National Congress Government erected a monument to their memory at Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara, sugar workers are still being used, as convenient political allies, by the PPP.

On this 66^th anniversary, however, the workers of this important industry are showing signs of resistance and asserting their independence from the clutches of the increasingly arrogant and insensitive PPP/C Government. Meanwhile, the rights of all workers continue to remain under threat and the political environment hostile to the maintenance of the independence and full development of workers and their unions.

The struggle for a living wage by public sector workers; the overt and covert efforts to destroy the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC); the virtual abolition of collective bargaining in the public sector; and the shameless failure to protect worker’s rights and interests in the bauxite industry by the Minister of Labour are, but, a few examples of the arrogance, insensitivity and brazen attacks on the trade union movement by the PPP/C Administration.

On this 66^th anniversary of the Enmore Martyrs, the PNCR re-dedicates itself to the continued struggle for workers rights, a living wage and better working conditions for all workers in Guyana.