{"id":20074,"date":"2024-05-30T13:12:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=20074"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T13:12:47","slug":"dr-bharrat-jagdeo-defends-independence-celebration-in-linden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/dr-bharrat-jagdeo-defends-independence-celebration-in-linden\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo Defends Independence Celebration in Linden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General Secretary of the ruling PPP, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has addressed concerns surrounding the decision to host this year&#8217;s Independence Anniversary flag-raising ceremony in Linden, Region 10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking during a press conference earlier today, he aimed to clarify issues raised by the opposition and encouraged people to attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, the national Independence Day celebrations were held in Georgetown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, President Irfaan Ali&#8217;s &#8216;One Guyana&#8217; initiative led the PPP\/C administration to decentralize the celebrations to different regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past two years, the festivities have taken place in Regions Two and Nine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo highlighted previous instances where the opposition questioned the decision to host celebrations outside of Georgetown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, with the event scheduled for Region 10, the opposition APNU\/AFC is urging people not to attend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo criticized this stance, calling it a &#8220;victim&#8217;s mentality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the significant investments made in Region 10, historically a stronghold of the opposition PNCR. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Projects in housing and water sectors were cited as examples of ongoing development efforts in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo urged residents not to be swayed by calls to abstain from attending the celebrations, which are set to begin late on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan General Secretary of the ruling PPP, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has addressed concerns surrounding the decision to host this year&#8217;s Independence Anniversary flag-raising ceremony in Linden, Region 10.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20076,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20074\/revisions\/20076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}