Dear Editor
IN the past four years we have enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence as Guyanese under the APNU+AFC. As expected during this election season, usually referred to as the silly season in Guyana, we’ve watched our common discourse turn ugly, divisive, and increasingly polarizing, especially on social media and in the newspaper letter columns.

However, the PPP/C General-Secretary, a former president and national leader who has never been short of insults, name-calling and coarse, offensive language to describe his opponents; who since the no-confidence motion of December 2018 has taken little effort to control the offensive nonsense that too often tumbles from his mouth. But the current period of toxity took a new low Friday, Nominations Day for General and Regional Elections due on March 02, when a seemingly simple question posed by journalist Dennis Chabrol to Bharrat Jagdeo, “What is plan B if Mr Irfaan Ali is convicted?” Jagdeo enjoying the civil liberties of free speech under the APNU+AFC, a right he brutally stifled under his administration, retorted in what I consider the lowest of lows that a former president speaking of a sitting president ‘s medical condition. Jagdeo’s response, “What is APNU plan if Mr. Granger has a relapse?”
Bharrat Jagdeo, some things are considered vile and wicked; this is definitely one of those.

Regards
Carla Mendonca