Don’t vote out of spite and mess this election up-Ali warns
August 27, 2025
Presidential Candidate for the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) and incumbent, Irfaan Ali, on Tuesday evening, urged Guyanese not to use the ballot as an act of spite, but to vote with conscience for the country, family, and community.
“This is not a time when you weaponise your vote. This is a time when you use your vote with your conscience for your country, your family, and your community and show that you are doing the right thing,” Ali told a campaign rally at Eccles, East Bank Demerara ahead of the September 1 General and Regional Elections.
The President prefaced his call announcing that Thursday (Tomorrow) night, he will be at the new Demerara River Bridge for the final pour of the structure. At the same time, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held today for the opening of a new Marriott Hotel in Guyana.
Additionally, “… we are studying the possibility and feasibility of building a train system from Golden Grove to Cane Grove,” he added.
According to the PPP/C hopeful, citizens should brace for acceleration in the expansion of the economy.
The objective, he said, “is to put more money in your pocket,” explaining that this would come not only through direct transfers but also through opportunities arising from investments.
To this end, he spoke of creating safe investment vehicles for Guyanese to participate in opportunities from government-led projects, in areas such as data centres, fertiliser production, agro-processing, manufacturing, logistics and industrial development.
“And your government will de-risk those opportunities so that the lending rate will come down …your investment will be safe and profitable because the government will de-risk the investment.”
Emphasising that people’s confidence in building new homes and businesses is a reflection of trust in government policies, he quipped, “Will you build a house on a sinking ship?”
According to the President, “…they are building them because they know their investment is safe in this country. They trust the government. They trust our policy. They trust the economy. They trust our leadership.”
Contrasting the present with 2020, he reminded the crowd, “Just five years ago … the world was begging us to behave ourselves. Let democracy rule…That was the conversation in the world in 2020. Today, your country is where every investor wants to be.”
With this, he sought to outline a vision of transforming Guyana into a “knowledge economy” supported by oil and gas services, accounting, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medicine, science, data management, technology, tourism, innovation centres and manufacturing.
“We have to build a knowledge economy by equipping the people to lead in knowledge transformation. That is where our future is … using this revenue and converting it into perpetual wealth by investment in our people,” he stated.
This he said, includes plans for vaccine and saline production in Guyana’s bio-pharma industry, the establishment of technology and AI centres, and expansion of agro-processing, logistics, engineering and medical services.
“We are not sleepwalking into the future. We are embracing the future with bold plans, with progressive plans, and with a clear understanding as to where Guyana must and should be.”
Adamant, “Guyana belongs to you” Ali told voters “Do not mess this up. This is not a time for experiments. This is not a time to gamble with your future. This is not a time to use your vote to take out a spite.”
