I find it quite uncontrollably risible that Asquith Rose would write the article: “The AFC will establish an accountable government” and think that it is a worthwhile pamphlet. It is quite jocular, but like all jokes, eliciting  even appropriate laughter must cease.
I sincerely doubt that anyone would even hint at any coalescing of the AFC with the PPP/C or the PNCR. As regards any teaming up with the PPP/C, it is definitely not a case of being “…consumed, (nor) losing identity and becoming a bird without wings.” The AFC is headed by a PPP/C reject. So I have to laugh at you. Khemraj Ramjattan (as the evidence shows) cannot even move his ‘blood relatives’ to give him a few votes. As for Raphael Trotman, this erstwhile PNCR executive is more interested in his own narcissistic desires. I quickly bring to mind the Ms. Gomattie incident, and then recently, Mr. Trotman’s unwillingness to play second fiddle to Mr. Ramjattan. Mr. Trotman even tried circumventing ‘his own’ constitution in order to feed his own maniacal desire. So Mr. Rose, the AFC is basically a ‘headless chicken.’ So I posit, like so many others, that “… that the AFC cannot win this election by itself (or in tandem) because it indeed has no governing philosophy, no penetrating message that will sway the voters, and no guiding principle on how to govern. In a nut shell, the AFC is politically obtuse and morally crippled.”
Here is a noteworthy repetition: Khemraj Ramjattan is PPP/C reject; Raphael Trotman has PNCR’s blood in his veins; and Sheila Holder is a moribund relic from the now ‘buried’ WPA. These leaders, therefore, have lost all grounds whatsoever, and so cannot pronounce on the local political milieu. Their best bet would be to ‘shut up.’
The second point I hope to lodge in people’s minds is how Mr. Rose is utterly fallacious, unobservant, and deceitful in his letter.  He opined that “… that after 45 years of independence, we (Guyana) have nothing much to show for our existence as a nation except for power blackouts, dilapidated educational and health care systems, flooding, unchecked nepotism, a high crime rate, rampant corruption, narcotics trafficking, the exodus of skilled and qualified Guyanese, and the rich getting richer while the masses get poorer.” Well I beg to disagree, and I am forced to think that ‘dear, old’ Mr. Rose is in self-imposed delusion, or in permanent hibernation.
Here are some uncontested facts: the accumulation of blackout hours is far fewer when contrasted with what obtained under the PNC; the education and health sectors are in great prosperity and burgeoning rapidly-they are both free (education up the secondary level); flooding is global and Guyana has thus far fared far better than the USA, China, etc.; the crime situation so far has not resulted in pandemonium as in say Jamaica, and Guyana does not have to contend with serial killers and terrorists, and this is because the government is good at the prevention game; corruption is yet to be proved, and already Mr. Ramotar has espoused the ‘let the law take its course’ philosophy; Do I need to go on?
Finally, I ask, that after you Sir, ‘wake’ from your slumber that you cogitate on these. How many officers/employees were fired by President Jagdeo, and if you can name instances when this kind of disciplinary measure was meted out during the regime of the PNC? Also, if you have the time and acumen, do a survey as regards the pre-1992 versus the post-1992 eras in Guyana. I rest my case.