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Vol. 30, Issue 1 BROOKLYN
EDITION JANUARY 3-9, 2020
Tropicalfete tribute
Tropicalfete stilt walkers perform to the music of Blacks soca hit “Hulk” as they pay
tribute to their late colleague Yvette Johnson. See story on Page 25.
Sandy Gosine / InstaGlam Photography
By Nelson A. King
A bill sponsored by
Brooklyn Sen. Roxanne
J. Persaud that seeks better
accountability at the
Mitchell-Lama Housing
program has been signed
into law.
“This legislation intends
to collect more data from
the Mitchell-Lama Housing
program and requires
a mandated annual report
sent to the State Comptroller
and the Attorney General
for further oversight,”
said the Guyanese-born
Persaud, who represents
the 19th Senatorial District
in Brooklyn.
“Limited-profit housing
companies (LPCs) are eligible
to voluntarily dissolve
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By Bert Wilkinson
This Friday, Jan. 3, Guyana’s
governing coalition will launch
its 2020 reelection campaign
with a massive rally in the city,
just about a week after President
David Granger dissolved
parliament ahead of the March
2020 general elections.
The move by the coalition
symbolizes the official start of
what critics consider as the
most important election in
Guyana’s history as the country
the gearing up for unprecedented
wealth having become
the world’s newest oil producer
as of Dec. 20. Whoever wins
this contest is likely to control
the country for decades to
come as experts have predicted
that the country could be earning
more than $5 billion annually
from revenues from oil in
less than a decade.
As the clock ticks way, the
65-seat unicameral house was
dissolved on Monday, Dec. 30
after meeting less than five
times in 2019 because the
administration of President
David Granger had lost a no
confidence motion to the main
opposition People’s Progressive
Party (PPP) in late December
of 2018. This came after one of
its own disaffected lawmakers
had sided with the PPP to erase
its wafer thin, one-seat parliamentary
majority. He denied
taking a million-dollar bribe,
saying he was simply disillusioned
with government’s lackluster
approach to key issues
including its handling of the
Continued on Page 12
Mitchell-Lama Housing accountability law
GUYANA’S
ELECTION
FEVER
Political parties prepare for
upcoming general elections
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