The ruling People’s Progressive Party has said that the role it played in poverty reduction has led to 73% of Guyanese proclaiming they were “happy†in a recent Latin American Public Opinion Poll.
The party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee said he failed to see any correlation between the opinion poll findings and the 2014 World Health Organisation report which named Guyana as the country with the highest suicide rate for 2012.
“I don’t see any comparison to the suicide rate,†Rohee said during the party’s weekly press briefing at Freedom House yesterday. Instead of acknowledging a fact that was already addressed by the Health Ministry and published by the WHO, Rohee said that information would needed to be provided to corroborate such a fact.
Rohee said, “The PPP is proud of the role it has played in poverty reduction in Guyana and the strong advocacy it has played in the creation of a better and just society.â€
He noted that the “mood of happiness†documented in the poll was a result of hard and “painstaking work†by the PPP/C government.
The party’s General Secretary Clement Rohee said he failed to see any correlation between the opinion poll findings and the 2014 World Health Organisation report which named Guyana as the country with the highest suicide rate for 2012.
“I don’t see any comparison to the suicide rate,†Rohee said during the party’s weekly press briefing at Freedom House yesterday. Instead of acknowledging a fact that was already addressed by the Health Ministry and published by the WHO, Rohee said that information would needed to be provided to corroborate such a fact.
Rohee said, “The PPP is proud of the role it has played in poverty reduction in Guyana and the strong advocacy it has played in the creation of a better and just society.â€
He noted that the “mood of happiness†documented in the poll was a result of hard and “painstaking work†by the PPP/C government.