Guyana's 2011 PPP Presidential Candidate Donald Ramoutar in Toronto Last Weekend

The Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) hosted yet another successful fund raising event in Toronto on Sunday September 18 at the Peter and Paul Banquet Hall.

Over 700 persons turned out for the occasion and the opportunity to interact with President Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP/C 2011 Presidential Candidate Mr. Donald Ramotar.

More importantly they were keen to learn about the vision of the country’s next Head of State and his plans to continue and further accelerate Guyana’s significant growth rate.

Following his address the large turnout were vociferous in their calls to - Let Progress Continue in Guyana. Ramotar has been with the PPP for a very long time and is believed to be equipped as the presidential candidate.

At the event, Ramotar stated , “This election in some ways has some uniqueness in it. All the presidential candidates from all the various politicals parties are for the first time competeing in the elections as presidential candidates. So we can guarantee that there will be a new president. This is because of the change in the constitution in which a president will only have two terms and President Jagdeo’s second term has come to an end. If we did not have that clause then I am certain that Jagdeo would have been our presidential candidate because of the seamless work he has done.”

He also went on to explain how Guyana has changed since 1992.

“When we got in government in 1992 our economy was in total shambles and we had one of the highest debts in the world. We were spending 94% of revenues that we collected only to service the debts. If you added that to public service  salaries that added up to 110% of our GDP in 1992. Which meant we were borrowing to pay debts. The debts were 7 and 1/2 times our GDP. Today we have brought it down to 35%. We have also repaired most physical infrastructure in our country. We have also built more than 1000 schools since we got into office.”

PPC Presidential Candidate Donald Ramotar

Ramotar also explained how the party has been successful when it came to healthcare and how the ecomony is still growing.

The PPC has a very good platform to further excel at a higher rate and have laid the foundation for a very rapid takeoff for Guyana.

Ramotar is hopeful that their party will win in the next election.