Dear Editor
THE Stabroek News is once again attacking elections officials at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
In the lead-up to the 1992 Regional and General Elections, Stabroek News was buoyant in the removal of Messrs Hector Bunyan, Errol Fraser and then Chief Elections Officer Ronald Jacobs; their cry was that those electoral officials were biased towards the PNC. After the 1992 elections, the PPP came to power and the independent Stabroek News was suddenly silent on the real shenanigans at GECOM. Albert Henry, who was the legal adviser for the 1997 and 2001 Regional and General Elections, was appointed an adviser at the Office of the President from 2003 to 2004. He then returned to GECOM as legal adviser for the 2006 Regional and General Elections and the independent Stabroek News was silent. The then PPP Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett’s son was employed by GECOM to work in the ID card production department for the 2006 Regional and General Elections. Reverse to the 1997 Regional and General Elections when Mr Ganga Persaud was GECOM’s Deputy Chief Elections Officer; after those elections he became a PPP minister of government.

The late Doodnauth Singh was GECOM Chairman for the 1997 Regional and General Elections; he subsequently became Bharrat Jagdeo’s attorney general.
So the million-dollar question being asked by the electorate is Stabroek News and its editor-in-chief engaging in the same mission as in 1992? The name of that mission was, Search and Destroy the PNC and just as in 1992, their target is the GECOM Secretariat. It would come as no surprise if the call is for Mr Keith Lowenfield to resign, but this retired major is no Ronald Jacobs. He has walked the plank at GECOM.
Regards
George Williams