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By Elections & Economy Desk | GOOD HOPE, 25 July 2025
A humid East‑Coast evening did little to dampen spirits in Good Hope, where Attorney‑General Anil Nandlall told hundreds of red‑shirted supporters that Guyana’s forty‑seven‑percent GDP surge last year is only the opening chapter. Framing the ballot as a wallet decision, he warned that the country must not “reverse into bankruptcy” by returning the opposition to power and reminded the crowd of the austerity and IMF supervision that marked previous PNCR administrations.
Nandlall reeled off a roster of big‑ticket projects slated for the next term: the gas‑to‑energy plant at Wales that could halve electricity tariffs, the new Demerara River bridge expected to shave twenty minutes off every crossing, a hemp industry and series of agro‑parks promising eight thousand jobs, and a Development Bank of Guyana set to provide low‑interest loans for small businesses, housing and green technology. He argued that each initiative forms a rung on a ladder from working class to wealth class, ensuring people do more than survive an oil boom— they prosper from it.
The Attorney‑General stressed accessibility as a differentiator, noting that senior ministers hold frequent walk‑abouts and title‑distribution drives instead of “five‑year disappearing acts.” That line scored with electrician Shawn Harry, who said the Housing Minister herself signed his land papers. Polling by CADRES shows sixty‑four percent of undecided voters rank the ability to build personal wealth as their top concern, a demographic sweet spot the PPP/C is courting with talk of scholarships, start‑up funds and tax holidays.
Opposition spokesperson Dawn Hastings‑Williams dismissed the event as a red‑carpet show, questioning why soaring growth has not already halved poverty. From the stage Nandlall responded that the runway is built and the aircraft of prosperity is rolling; only reckless politics could stall take‑off. With ninety‑one thousand first‑time voters set to cast ballots, PPP/C hopes its prosperity pitch will convert economic statistics into electoral support.
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“Next Five Years Are About Wealth”: Nandlall’s Good Hope Rally Makes the Wallet Pitch
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