I was the PPP/C polling agent in the 1992 elections for district No. 221125 Division (military voting) at the Anna Regina Police Station. The military voting started at 06:00 hrs. The Presiding Officer was Ms  Vidyawattie Changur, Returning Officer Ms Jean Amsterdam, PPP/C polling agent Mohamed Khan, Stanley Reid PNC polling agent, Bruno URP polling agent and Robbie DLM polling agent. The ballot box was declared open before all the party agents and the first vote cast was Corporal Downer. Voting was smooth during the day with some mistakes on the voters’ list; some policemen who live and work (in Anna Regina), their names were on the Leguan voters’ list. As such, they were asked to vote at Leguan Police Station.  I could have seen the disappointment in their faces, because all of them were East Indians.
At  the close of poll at 18:00 hrs, I was allowed to accompany the box, after the rest of polling agents refused to accompany the box.
The Returning Officer and some PNC thugs wanted the box to overnight at the police station but I strongly objected to their proposals. The box was then taken to the Election Office at Cotton Field on the Essequibo Coast for safe-keeping.
I again objected to this proposal and told the Returning Officer that the box will have to be with the presiding officer, according to the ‘Carter’ laws, until we can meet the Elections Commission building on Croal Street in Georgetown.
Finally, the Returning Officer agreed for the box to be with the presiding officer at her house with a police officer and me before going to Georgetown the next morning. At midnight, about 10 PNC thugs converged on the building where the ballot box was, demanding to see the box but Constable Baburam, now a CID officer, prevented them from entering the house. Soon after, a  PNC agent forced his way into the house and demanded to look at the box. I strongly objected for him to be there at this hour of the morning. He was at the time using threatening remarks towards me.
At 05.55 hrs in the morning, a car transported us from the presiding officer’s house along with Constable Petty to the Anna Regina Police Station where the box was booked-out for Georgetown. In that car was the presiding officer, myself and Corporal Downer. We travelled to Supenaan and hired a special speed boat to Parika.
We then took a special hire car and travelled to the Elections Commission building on Croal Street. There I handed over the box to Comrade Ralph Ramkarran, the PPP/C Commissioner. I can remember seeing comrade Usman Ali, the PPP/C polling agent with the Bartica box.
Comrade Feroze Mohamed then sent a car to collect me at the Elections Commission building then to Freedom House where I gave a statement to him as to what took place on the Essequibo Coast while I was with the box at the police station and the presiding officer’s house.
I overnighted at a relative’s house in Duke Street, Kingston, but because of the disturbances in Georgetown, early the very next morning I left for my home on the Essequibo Coast. Sadly, my father died on September 27, 1992, one day before the military voting and I had no other option but to be at the polling station without attending his funeral and burial. The party selected me as the most suitable polling agent and I was encouraged by comrade Ali Baksh and Basir to be at the station before 06:00 hrs in the morning, as it was too late to replace me with another person as this election was vital for freedom. It was the dawn of a new era for the PPP/C, after 28 years in the wilderness.