Dear Editor,
A hand is needed. Am trying to remember. There were general elections in September 2025. True or false? Eligible Guyanese came out, voted. They did, didn’t they? Incidentally, there were ‘other’ voters, but let’s overlook today. Then, GECOM completed its process and announced the results. Right or wrong? Last, all the leading political contestants accepted the results. Yea or nay?
So, the sequence went like this: 1) elections, 2) voting, 3) results, 4) conceding. All living happily ever after. But there is the Hon Attorney General of Guyana, Anil Nandlall, SC pulling a PNC move. Can an honourable son of Guyana bring dishonour upon himself so recklessly? Is the AG conscious of where he is, what company he and the PPP are keeping? For what he has taken a stand on, as the messenger of the PPP, is right out of the PNC’s voluminous playbook.
The PNC stumbled badly, fell flat on its face, lost face, and refuse to wash its face and start over. Wee stayin at GECOM; keeping aal three seats. Constitution referenced, mentioned, quoted. I believe that the Holy Bible was also, as justification for the PNC’s stubborn latching on to three seats at GECOM. My position is simple, unchanged. Keep one, leggo the other two. Meeting of the minds, with Guyana in mind.
Now here comes the erudite, energetic (not erratic) Mr. Nandlall sounding off on the Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC), through taking a page out of the PNC’s book. “The Commission is properly constituted and as such is moving ahead with its work.” Perhaps, it too properly constituted, which explains why chronic constipation has blocked the free movement of its work. What work? Where? Given to whom? But those are secondary to the contention as hand.
The Guyanese people voted. Remember, Mr. Nandlall? They have seen red and are still to see green. Summation: 109,000 of them couldn’t take both anymore. So, they decided to take a chance on blue. Their call must translate to something, mean something. Somewhere. Like representation in parliament. Why did it have to require in PPP democratic Guyana, AG Nandlall, for Anglo-Saxons, Celts, Danes, Gaelic, Norwegians,Romans, Swedes, and Teutons, to set the PPP straight (mainly nonwhite people) and get it to reopen parliament? Minister Gail Teixeira, another Guyanese of rare honour, can wave her timetable all she wants, but the White people got the jump on her. Guyanese, over 100,000 of them, said we want WIN. To represent us. In parliament. So, if there, it also has to be the same way on the Constitution Reform Commission. Mr. Nandlall is reported to be a bright fellow. At times like these, he’s too slippery for his own good. He is the first one to talk about the will of the people, and the people have spoken. Why not now, why not the CRC? I have my own line: this confounded nonsense must stop. Would it require foreigners to intervene again? Or, is the honourable Mr. Nandlall saying that the WIN votes don’t count?
In substance, this is what the PNC has been saying relative to WIN representation on GECOM. The people voted, now let them get the WIN selection(s) around the GECOM table. I switch back to the PPP and Mr. Nandlall. Somebody enlighten me about what is different with what the PNC has done (GECOM), and what Nandlall’s PPP is doing now (CRC)? The right to represent has been won fair and square. Looking back, then looking to today, this is another version of a driver throwing simple Guyanese from a bus in the middle of nowhere. These are the fine folks that palaver about democracy and morality, duty and honour, then enter the houses of some god to add insult to insolence.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
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