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After almost two tumultuous years in Guyana, the USAID Leadership and Democracy (LEAD) Programme has concluded. Glenn Bradbury, Resident Country Director in Guyana for the Washington-based, International Republican Institute, will soon be departing.To say Bradbury received less than favourable treatment from the former PPP/C regime would be an understatement. 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All political parties were invited to participate in the Programme and its activities – although by all accounts,Cheap Jerseys Online, the PPP/C never did.Despite the ludicrous and fanciful accusations by the PPP/C, no evidence was ever provided of the LEAD giving any money to either APNU or AFC. There was no proof offered of some covert US plan to overthrow the PPP/C government.It would seem that the government’s ramped-up hysteria focused on LEAD was more the product of an over-developed imagination and a long-standing paranoia that existed deep within the inner circles and psyche of the PPP/C leadership – fuelled by a growing hostility to a US Ambassador constantly harping on about why no local government elections were being called and Dr. Roger Luncheon’s personal inability to process the fact that the Cold War ended decades ago and that his side actually lost.Regardless,Wholesale Jerseys From China, the PPP/C announced that it would not enter into discussions with the Americans to re-design the LEAD Program unless it was put on hold. Once LEAD was shelved,Wholesale Jerseys From China, and in an obvious ploy to defuse the negative publicity growing over the entire affair, the PPP/C, under the crafty guidance of its chief tactician and thespian, Dr. Luncheon, set about to “negotiate” the obtaining of a watered-down LEAD that was more to the government’s liking – gutted of its ability to build the capacity of the various political parties; have no chance of improving the Assembly’s performance, and never achieve anything close to obtaining consensus in the gridlocked National Assembly.A politically-neutered LEAD Programme was left with working to empower women and youth and assist in the provision of voter education for local government elections that the government never intended to call unless it was absolutely certain that it would win most of them.Fast forward to today. The PPP/C is no longer in power. 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