On October 29, 2005, THREE Parliamentarians — Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan, Esq, Hon. Raphael Trotman, Esq, and Late Hon. Sheila Holder — WALKED out of their PPP, PNC and WPA Parties and FORMED the Alliance for Change PARTY as the THIRD FORCE.
The BHAMAS BLUEPRINT: 3 CO-FOUNDERS Raphael Trotman Esq., Khemraj Ramjattan Esq, and Sheila Holder envisioned an influential middle-class THIRD PARTY to challenge the PPP and PNC.
The PROMISE, PLAN and HOPE, was Simple: neither RACE-BASED POLITICS nor winner-takes-all politics, BUT Governance with JUSTICE for ALL Guyanese GLOBALLY.
TWENTY-ONE YEARS LATER, on October 29, 2026, that PROMISE is ON LIFE SUPPORT.
2025 ELECTIONS: What AFC Must REFLECT, LEARN and DO, towards 2030
GECOM’s FINAL ELECTIONS COUNT from September 1, 2025, is OFFICIAL and BRUTAL: AFC received 3,610 votes, 0.82% of the Electorate, and ZERO SEATS in a 65-seat National Assembly. FROM 9 SEATS to 0. From KINGMAKER to FOOTNOTE.
I am also a Project Manager among my skills, education, and experiences. I have watched Guyana Minister of Finance, Hon. Dr. Ashni Singh, announce $233 Billion for Roads, $161 Billion for Health, $123 Billion for Drainage. BUT Announcements do not handover DELIVERABLES.
In PROJECT MANAGEMENT, there is a RULE: SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS (SMEs) decides WHAT MUST be done, PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS (PMPs) decides HOW it gets done, ON TIME, ON BUDGET, with QUALITY Materials, Labor, and Assets.
Guyana Government with many SMEs — Educated Ministers and Advisors. BUT, It has NO Ministry of Planning and Project Management to enforce HOW.
AFC mostly suffered from the SAME DISEASE while it was in the APNU/AFC Government from 2015 to 2020.
APNU/AFC did not deliver a system to track delivery. APNU/AFC had NO national PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO). NO Earned-Value Curves. (Is a project color-document that objectively measures project performance by integrating scope, schedule, and cost into a single, data-driven report); NO monthly RAG reports ( Red, Amber, Green report IS a Visual Project Management TOOL that uses a traffic-light color coding system to summarize the Health, Progress, and RISK level of a Project, Program, or Business activity at A GLANCE for TRANSPARENCY ) that a citizen could understand. When HOSPITALS were LATE and roads CRACKED, voters remembered the PRESS conference, NOT the handover.
With RESPECT, There are THREE reasons AFC collapsed to ZERO. None of them is that Guyanese did not want a THIRD FORCE.
FIRST, is STRUCTURE. AFC contested alone in 2025. AFC presented FULL LISTS in all 10 Regions. But LISTS are not VOTES. The Carter Center observed that OPPOSITION Fragmentation Depressed TURNOUT by nearly 15%. TURNOUT FELL to 58.41%, the LOWEST in recent HISTORY.
With A SPLIT, NO COALITION , AFC voters STAYED HOME. APNU received 77,998 votes and 12 seats. AFC RECEIVED 3,610 and ZERO SEATS. IF ADDED TOGETHER — 81,608 —AFC and APNU would still have been BEHIND WIN’s 109,066. That tells, THAT the PROTEST VOTE did not want another PRINCIPLED speech. VOTERS wanted a VEHICLE.
WIN, Founded on 23rd. June 2025 for GENERAL ELECTIONS on 1st. September 2025, a Brand-New Party, 10 WEEKS or 70 DAYS, LED by Azruddin Mohamed, WON 16 seats because WIN offered Resources, TikTok, Facebook, and ANGER for THE BLUE WAVE TSUNAMI.
On the COALITION , the AFC offered History, Rhetoric, and Indecision. For 5 days (30 May – 4 June 2025), Dr. Terrence Campbell and Dr. Shamir Ally BROKERED 7-line items. Hon. Aubrey Norton agreed to all 7; AFC Nigel Hughes Esq. agreed to 3. The deadlock for AFC was on President, Split Percentage, Speaker, and Ministers. Voters saw THIS as AFC Arrogance — that it could go ALONE and win, as its Jamaican advisor reportedly urged. RESULT: Clean Bowled for a DUCK on Election Day
SECOND, is MESSAGE. For 21 years AFC said AFC were Principled. In 2025, PRINCIOLED sounded like ABSENT. WIN Party OWNED Corruption and Marginalization talk. PPP Owned OIL and CASH transfers. What did AFC OWN? Nothing . When 2015-2020 deliverables were IN THEIR RECORDS. A market vendor in Linden or a Fisherperson in Region 6 could FEEL before the next election.
My SUGGESTION is 19 Current Ministries PLUS TWO NEW Ministries : a Ministry of Planning and Project Management and a Ministry of Diaspora for Skills, Investment and Support MOBILIZATION . AFC needs TO OWN these TWO LANES.
Imagine IF in 2023, AFC had created a Shadow Ministry of Planning and Published, every month, an S-curve showing how much of the $233 Billion road budget was physically built.
Imagine IF AFC had owned Diaspora WITH DEEDS not WORDS in its Action Plans— 3 Guyanese Project Management Professionals (PMPS) in Queens, Toronto, and London VOLUNTEERING as TECHNOCRATS Shadow MINISTERS. AFC did not. AFC left Diaspora Money and Talent to WIN and PPP Parties.
The CONSTITUTION of Guyana, Article 105, allows for UP to FOUR Technocrat Ministers (non-elected members appointed by the President who sit in the National Assembly WITHOUT A VOTE).
THIRD, is the LAST MILE. AFC in 2015 WON because it SPOKE to HINTERLAND and URBAN African Guyanese VOTERS who FELT EXCLUDED. In 2025, AFC said nothing specific to them. WIN Party won Regions 7 and 10 — Region 10, AFC FORMER stronghold. Why? Because AFC had NO KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs) CITIZEN VOTERS could hold AFC to.
AM suggesting FOR AFC TO make SOLUTIONS Announcements and Advocacies, for Hinterland Pharmaceutical/DRUGS Stockouts ZERO Percent, and Business Registration UNDER three days with Technologies. Do TWO ITEMS PERFECTLY, not 10 items POORLY.
The PATH BACK from ZERO to FIVE seats by 2030 is MATH, not MAGIC. Five SEATS requires about 35,000 votes, roughly 8%. TEN TIMES what AFC received in 2025. That CANNOT be done ALONE. IT REQUIRES a COALITION Delivery ALLIANCE.
NOT a MERGER where AFC disappears, BUT a SHARED TICKET in FOUR REGIONS where AFC still has NAME Recognition: Region 4 (most populous with Georgetown) , Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne), Region 7 ( Cuyuni-Mazaruni) , and Region 10 (Linden, Upper Demerara, Berbice). Contest HERE, Intensely, Polling station by Polling station, Door to Door, and every bottomhouse.
The NEW REBRANDED AFC requires a NEW LEADERSHIP MODEL. Each Ministry needs a SME + PMP owner. (Subject Matter Expert + Project Management Professional). For AFC, which means Khemraj Ramjattan Esq, a Lawyer, should be paired with David Patterson for Infrastructure as Shadow Minister of Planning. Dr. Vince Adams for Diaspora, paired with Diaspora PMPs AND Derek Basdeo, for OIL, GAS and DIASPORA. AFC OWN THESE TWO LANES 24x, 365/366 with SOLUTIONS to PROBLEMS.
The NEW REBRANDED AFC also requires HONESTY about Conflict. Attorney Nigel Hughes’s LAW FIRM represents ExxonMobil. That has been used against AFC. SOP, Standard Operating Practice, The way to NEUTRALIZE is NOT A DENIAL, but A FIREWALL: PUBLISH the FIREWALL, place OIL POLICY in Patterson and Dr. Adams’s Hands, and publish LEGAL client hours. VOTERS/Citizens WILL FORGIVE a Lawyer-Client Relationship. They do NOT forgive SECRECY.
On this AFC’s 21st Anniversary, am NOT calling for AFC to DIE. I am calling for it to CHANGE ENOUGH TO MATTER. Guyana does not need THREE OPPOSITION PARTIES. It needs ONE OPPOSITION GROUP that can MANAGE a $ TRILLION OIL Budget at 80% Physical Delivery, NOT 33%. WIN Party as THE Opposition LEADER to discuss and conclude a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). WIN Party in 3 months with 16 MPs.
Guyana’s 2025 National Budget was officially passed by the National Assembly at GY$1.382 Trillion (approximately US$6.6 Billion), marking the country’s SECOND-ever Trillion-dollar budget.
The ORIGINAL AFC was BORN because THREE parties were NOT DELIVERING. The NEW REBRANDED AFC must be REBORN INTO a SMALLER, more TECHNICAL, more Honest MISSION. But it is a WINNABLE ONE.
AFC MOVED from 0 to 7 to 9 SEATS IN PARLIAMENT by being USEFUL. 2025 AFC went from 9 to 0 by being PRINCIPLED but NOT USEFUL. The NEXT chapter is SIMPLE: BE USEFUL AGAIN.
From 0 to 5 by 2030. With a Shadow Project Management Office (PMO) and With DIASPORA.
Blessed, Happy and Enjoyable 21ST. Anniversary, AFC. Now, START to WORK with 7 KEYS, Vision, Team, Plan, Resources, EXECUTION, Evaluation and LEADERSHIP.
2015-2020 DELIVERABLES with PROMISES DELIVERED
AFC + APNU 2020 to 2025: By working together, the COALITION started to place Guyana on the RIGHT PATH.
Government came to power on a simple promise: to deliver a good life for all Guyanese. A simple promise that every citizen should have the opportunity to be the best he or she can be, ensuring job security, access to quality public services and the promotion of social cohesion.
The Guyana we inherited was heading backwards. During their 23 years in government, the PPP’s dishonesty and incompetence saw violent crime increase, infrastructure crumble and education standards fall.
We did not create this mess that Guyana is in, but we will take responsibility for fixing it and building a secure society for all Guyanese people.
By working together, our coalition has started to put Guyana on the right path.
We have made a start, but we need more time to finish the job and build a better future for Guyana.
Only by continuing to follow this plan will we be able to guarantee a better future for all Guyanese.
Some of the APNU+AFC coalition’s top achievements include:
- 15,000 jobs created by the Government’s GO-Invest programmes.
- Installation of 1,500 free computers in 172 community ICT hubs throughout the country.
- The President 5 Bs Initiative provided 1,400 bikes, 29 buses and 10 boats, meaning thousands more children in rural areas are now able to attend school. With the East Bank bus route alone, families in Region Six have been able to save an average of $72,000 per day, $360,000 a week and $1.4 million a year.
- Women have been appointed to 40% of cabinet positions–double the global average–as well as to state boards and constitutional commissions in significant numbers.
- The piracy that plagued our fishing communities ended.
Economic Growth & Job Creation
PROMISE DELIVERED
- 15,000 jobs created by the government’s GO-Invest programmes.
- 220 investment agreements signed in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, ICT, energy and mining, totaling $250B.
- $100M Revolving Fund is providing 2,727 loans and grants to support young entrepreneurs and their businesses.
- Small Business Bureau helped support over 200 businesses through partial loan guarantees and grants worth around $180M in 2018, creating 535 jobs.
- Launch of a Sovereign Wealth Fund to ensure oil benefits all Guyanese.
- Economic growth is at an all-time high. Guyana’s economy grew at a rate of 4.1% during 2018, hitting a record $689B.
Fighting Crime
PROMISE DELIVERED
- Reported serious crimes have fallen by 30% from 2014-2018.
- The piracy that plagued our fishing communities ended.
- Investment of $1.7B on building, rehabilitating, and renovating police stations.
- The Emergency Response System expanded to an additional 52 stations.
- Increase in narcotic confiscations, with over 800 kg of cocaine, 65,000 kg of cannabis and 1,900 kg of heroin seized in 2017 and 2018.
- Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index saw Guyana’s ranking rise from 119 to 93 since 2015— noted as one of the biggest improvers.
- Introduction of Community Policing Group to build trust with local communities. In 2018, 262 arrests were made thanks to intelligence gathering and surveillance by this initiative.
Unity & Social Cohesion
PROMISE DELIVERED
- Construction of the $160M Indian Arrival Monument.
- Countrywide outreaches are organized to support all communities and ethnic groups.
- Ethnic Relations Commission promotes unity through education and prosecutes discrimination.
- Official acknowledgement of religious and cultural festivals, including interfaith services.
- Initiated a Gender and Social Inclusion Policy to provide equal opportunities for all, no matter gender, class, or ethnicity.
- Women have been appointed to 40% of cabinet positions–double the global average–as well as to state boards and constitutional commissions in significant numbers.
Infrastructure
PROMISE DELIVERED
- More than 90% now have access to electricity, rising by 4% since 2014.
- New oil and diesel power plants were built in Anna Regina, Bartica, and Canefield.
- The introduction of 4G internet.
- More than $10B invested to expand and upgrade main coastal highways to ease congestion and traffic.
- Over 350 km of roads are maintained in the Hinterland.
- Almost 4,000 housing lots provided for Guyanese.
- Installation of 21,700 LED streetlights across Guyana.
- Installation of 1,500 free computers in 172 community ICT hubs throughout the country.
- Business registration hubs were established to make it easier to start companies, helping to create jobs.
Education & Training
PROMISE DELIVERED
- The President 5 Bs Initiative provided 1,400 bikes, 29 buses and 10 boats, meaning thousands more children in rural areas are now able to attend school. With the East Bank bus route alone, families in Region Six have been able to save an average of $72,000 per day, $360,000 a week and $1.4 million a year.
- Over 50 new schools have been constructed, rehabilitated, and expanded, providing thousands of additional school places for our children.
- 1,854 new teachers trained for the education system, including 417 in 2018 alone.
- Improvements in educational attainment key subjects. 2018 pass rates for NGSA increased in mathematics (13.85% to 42%), sciences (27.55% to 42.4%), and English (41.62% to 57.4%), compared to 2016.
- National School Feeding Programme provided over 15,000 students with nutritious meals to help them to concentrate on their studies. A further 9,500 students are on track to benefit in 2019.
- Teachers are finally receiving better training and pay rises of around 10%.
Sanitation
PROMISE DELIVERED
- $100M ‘Clean-up Georgetown Campaign’ has cleaned the streets and desilted the canals.
- Over 29 km of canals and 42 km of irrigation channels have been built, rehabilitated, or maintained to improve drainage and dramatically reduce the risk of flooding.
- 100,000 people gained access to clean drinking water for the first time.
- New water treatment plants built in Uitvlugt (Region Three), Diamond (Region Four) and Sheet Anchor (Region Six) to provide 45,000 people with 24-hour water access.
- New solid waste disposals in Bartica, Linden, and Mahdia.
- Five new pump stations to help drain 4,500 acres of farmland and help up to 200,000 residents.
- New wells and piped water access for isolated Hinterland and rural communities.
Healthcare
PROMISE DELIVERED
- Expansion of medical facilities, with 22 new medical facilities added in 2019.
- Increased vaccine coverage to 90% of the population, with polio, tuberculosis, and tetanus vaccinations all now above 98%.
- Increased availability of retroviral treatments for HIV increased from 56% to 64% from 2015 to 2017. As a result, infection rates remain at a stable rate of 1.7% of the population.
- Malaria cases have been reduced from 17,500 reported cases in 2014 to 11,000 cases in 2018.
- Free distribution of 91,000 insecticide-treated bed and hammock nets.
- Improved maternity care, resulting in a fall in reported maternal deaths by 50% in some areas.
- New drug procurement system has helped to improve the supply of essential medicines. Under the new process, average stock rates have increased from 60-75% to 95%.
- Increasing the number of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. There are now over 13 doctors and 36 nurses per 10,000 people.
- 24-hour laboratory blood testing service extended to all hospitals.
2020 with 9 AFC MINISTERS: 40% of the Cabinet.
1. Hon. Moses Nagamootoo, Esq. – Prime Minister and First Vice President
2. Hon. Khemraj Ramjattan, Esq. – Second Vice President and Minister of Public Security
3. Hon. Raphael Trotman, Esq. – Minister of Natural Resources (previously Minister of Governance)
4. Hon. David Patterson – Minister of Public Infrastructure
5. Hon. Catherine Hughes – Minister of Public Telecommunications (previously Minister of Tourism)
6. Hon. Dominic Gaskin – Minister of Business
7. Hon. Noel Holder – Minister of Agriculture
8. Hon. Valerie Garrido-Lowe – Minister within the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs
9. Hon. Jaipaul Sharma – Minister within the Ministry of Finance (later Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure)
EMBASSY IN KUWAIT
Dr. Shamir Andrew Ally: 2nd Resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Kuwait from August 2016 to August 2020, with 5 KEY DELIVERABLES.
- The US$50.7 Million Debt Write-Off (about 67%) of DEBT Guyana owed.
- The East Coast Road Feasibility GRANT of KWD 500,000 = US$1.63 million.
- GUINNESS WORLD RECORD on 25th. January 2020 for GUYANA’S 50 th. Anniversary as a REPUBLIC and KUWAIT for 25 Years of Diplomatic Relations AND 9th. Anniversary of Embassy, with 41,543 UNIQUE STICKERS on a Sedan Motor Car. GUYANA ON THE GLOBAL STAGE with MEDIA coverages.
- KEEP KUWAIT CLEAN: Recycling Program: ADOPTED BY KUWAIT Government.
- SHOW, TELL & KNOW Guyana, with DAILY program on TV and Print Media
ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK, JEDDDAH, Kingdom of SAUDI ARABIA
Dr. Shamir Andrew Ally : First Alternate Governor at IsDB: He concurrently served from May 2017 to July 2020. Serving alongside then-Minister of Finance Hon. Winston Jordan, who was the PRIMARY Governor. With 3 KEY Deliverables.
- The US$900 Million “Resource Envelope” (2018–2020)
- The US$20 Million Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Loan
- Agricultural “Reverse-Linkage” Project: Technical assistance grants under the IsDB’s South-South Reverse-Linkage Cooperation program. A major highlight was an agricultural agreement that matched Guyana’s farming needs with the technical expertise of larger IsDB member nations (such as Malaysia or Indonesia). This project introduced innovative, climate-resilient rice varieties and modernized local rice production technologies to boost Guyana’s regional food security.
Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest)
Dr. Shamir Andrew Ally: During his DIPLOMATIC tenure, also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest): February 2016 to December 2019. With 2 KEY DELIVERABLES.
- 15,000 jobs created by the Government’s GO-Invest programmes.
- 220 investment agreements signed in agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, ICT, energy and mining, totaling $250B.
Collin R. Haynes, MPH, MBA. CEO of Diamond Diagnostic Center. 2016.
Ron Alert, CPA, FCCA, FCIS : Chairman of the Board of Directors for Guyana National Printers Limited (GNPL) 2017 to 2020 and Diaspora Advisor 2016-2020
Visionary Dr. Rohan Somar, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM, (Rtd. US Air Force); Ewart Marshall, BS; and Tameshwar Lilmohan, CPA, FCCA, LLM. Were Appointed as DIASPORA ADVISORS 2016-2020.
Dianna Rajkumar, MA ( Diplomacy): Public Procurement Commission (PPC) COMMISSIONER . July 1, 2022, to July 2025
Photo: AFC Meeting at US DEPARTMENT OF STATE on OCTOBER 7, 2024
October 7, 2024, The Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes and a delegation on Monday held a meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, US Department of State, Barbara Feinstein; and Director, Office of Caribbean Affairs, Katherine Beamer, where they discussed matters pertaining to Guyana’s Development and National Elections, an AFC release stated.
The meeting was held at the Department of State office in Washington DC and Hughes was accompanied by Chairman of the Party, David Patterson MP, executive members Professor Shamir Ally, Catherine Hughes MP, Collin Haynes, and advisor, Laura George
Above Photo. AFC at US DoS, Washington, DC R to L: Dr. Shamir Ally ; Dr Gerry Yaw ; Dr. Rohan Somar. MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAEM, (Retired US Air Force) ; Ron Alert; and Ewart Marshall. NOT IN PHOTO Prof. Dr. Tarron Khemraj at US DoS and World Bank meetings.
Above Photo AFC USA Chapter, Foreign Relations Committee, FIRST Meeting at U.S. Department of State – November 30, 2009 (Date Stamped Photo) . 17 Years of Diplomacy. 33 High-Level Engagements at U.S. Dept of State, IMF, World Bank, OAS, United Nations, Amnesty International, National Democratic Institute, and U.S. Senate.
AFC Party towards 2030 with Renew. Rebuild. Rise.
RENEW — Renew the Founding PROMISE of 2005: Justice, Integrity, Good Governance.
REBUILD — Rebuild Trust, COALITION , and Grassroots Organization.
RISE— Rise from 2025’s LESSONS to DELIVER for every Guyanese Household by 2030.
Photo: AFC Leader Hon. DAVID A. PATTERSON, MRICS, MASI, BSc Hons in Quantity Surveying (Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Real Estate Appraiser and Project Management)
