Dear Editor, David Granger will never allow a recount of the Region Four ballots until he makes peace with his loss; for the ballots will confirm he lost the election and reveal his duplicity of efforts from behind his Chinese wall to subvert GECOM and have himself declared the winner. Ploy after ploy failed and then came the unanticipated divorce from the process by the US/UK/EU/Canada and the Organisation of American States observer mission. It left Granger with his ‘win’ but no possibility of recognition by any other country in…
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Very strange and suspicious that Granger would request a recount of the votes
Dear Editor, Following the walk-out by all the international observers from a reportedly rigged vote-counting process in Guyana, incumbent President David Granger was making plans to swear himself in as an illegal President. Then boom! The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) appeared at the eleventh hour to save Granger from his own destruction as well as to sanitize him in the eyes of the rest of the world. There will now be a recount of the ballots in the controversial Region 4 instead of the compulsory continuation of the…
Read MorePure incompetence, carelessness, callousness and an inability to grasp the seriousness of COVID-19
Dear Editor, Never has it been more apparent the unacceptable levels of callousness and incompetence in Guyana’s modern healthcare system, than with the post and pre-events surrounding the discovery of ‘Patient Zero’ in the first confirmed case of the deadly novel coronavirus (COVID-19) on Guyana’s shores. The ruckus that ensued with the family before and after the death of Guyana’s first victim and the baffling health authority decisions that followed, only leaves gaping questions as to whether Business and Accounts Degree holder, Volda A Lawrence and the Health Ministry she…
Read MoreFormer Army Chief urges President Granger to ‘call off Dogs of War’
Following is an open letter by former Army Major General Joe Singh to President David Granger: Dear Mr President I respectfully pen this open letter to you via the media in the hope that you will realise the national importance I have attached to taking this step. I am placing my neck on the line that you are being manipulated by persons who do not have the best interests of our beloved Guyana at heart and who are prepared to hold you hostage to their own evil intentions and to…
Read MoreSanctions will affect all of Guyana
Dear Editor, A lot of good people are watching in silence, the collusion between APNU/AFC, GECOM and the police in what seems to be a never-ending series of attempts to rig the elections. Everyone has seen with their own eyes the duplicitous behaviour of GECOM staffers and Granger’s silly pretence of non-intervention in the operations of the said organisation. Everyone knows Granger does not have to intervene personally. All he has to do is pass instructions or stay silent if he approves of what GECOM is doing. The entire world…
Read MoreMy observations on the nexus between APNU and GECOM
Dear Editor, I am a local election observer accredited by GECOM. On election day, I visited 59 Polling Stations, morning and afternoon, and observed the voting process in more than 40 of them. I found order and peace in all except in Sophia Primary School, where there were people not voting hanging out outside the gates, especially around the food vendors. They were tolerated by the police. There were even persons in the compound, who when I asked who they were, replied they were “helpers”. When I asked to what…
Read MoreGECOM has lost all credibility
Dear Editor, A constitutional body that taxpayers spend billions of dollars on every year has now lost all credibility and cannot remain the same due to what unfolded over the last few weeks and suspiciously since the No-Confidence Motion (NCM) in Dec 2018. Looking at the body of evidence, it is now apparently clear, the deliberate attempts of stalling the calling of elections since the NCM was orchestrated and succeeded as the country had to endure countless delays before elections could be held. Additionally, the blatant attempt at pushing the…
Read MoreDemocracy must prevail
Dear Editor, It is with a heavy heart that I am penning this letter. We have over our entire lifetime in Guyana co-existed with our brothers and sisters of all races. None of us, no one race has more rights to Guyana than the other. When we fight each other over decisions made by political leaders from any party, we are only creating more division in Guyana and some political leaders use that division as leverage to garner votes….votes – that is all they care about. I understand the hurt…
Read MoreThe accusations of ‘Russian hacking’ is laughable and ludicrous
The accusation by two senior members of the AFC that Russians hacked the March 2 elections in an effort to tamper with the results is laughable and ludicrous. The two officials in question are qualified professionals and held high offices in the coalition government. By that, one would assume they possess a profound sense of reasoning and rationality. In reality, assumptions are just what it is. Surely, they must have known that the voting and tabulation process in Guyana’s elections is manual; voters’ choice is indicated through the use of…
Read MoreThe WPA must ensure that the integrity of the electoral process is not compromised
Dear Editor, It is revealing the naked grab for power by the APNU/AFC based on the promise of black gold, gushing forth from the Atlantic. It is also revealing the weaknesses of the WPA in its role as an insignificant political entity in the Government. The WPA is politically weak, since it has failed to garner significant electoral support since the return to “free and fair elections” in 1992. “Free and fair elections” in the Guyana context meant a return to racial voting blocks, a historical legacy and reality mirroring…
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