Dear Editor
THE Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has noted that a Guyanese citizen residing in Trinidad and Tobago by the name of Randy Depoo, performed a publicity stunt yesterday by presenting a so-called petition to the United States Embassy in Jamaica. Depoo’s fake petition calls for sanctions against named Guyana Government officials for purportedly engaging in “elections rigging.”

No court in Guyana has made any finding of electoral irregularities. Depooís allegations are solely an invention of the racist opposition PPP, of which Depoo is a member, and which GECOM results show lost the March 2, 2020 elections. Currently, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is preparing for a countrywide recount of all ballots. There are also credible allegations that the PPP engaged in elections fraud in Regions One, Two, Three, Five and Six. The PPP is resisting a national recount of votes.

Deepoo is a known PPP operative. He has himself been accused of electoral fraud in connection with his involvement with GECOM during the December 15, 1997 and 2006 general elections in Guyana. It was in the midst of the 1997 elections that the PPP unlawfully swore in its presidential candidate, Mrs. Janet Jagan, as President, while votes were still being counted. The elections were later nullified by the Guyana Supreme Court. Depoo has therefore earned a place on any sanctions list for alleged electoral fraud in Guyana.

Depoo is also alleged to have been the subject of an FBI and Trinidad and Tobago Police Service investigation for making death threats. On December 11, 2007, Depoo allegedly sent an email to the office of CGID President, Rickford Burkeís office which read: “I am in Guyana armed, ready Ö and waiting for the likes of Rickford Burke.” The email was reportedly sent in response to an article Burke wrote, titled, “Torture, bloodshed and ethnic exclusion in Guyana.” Depoo is a known flat-footed PPP hack who is seeking attention with an insipid political stunt.

Any sanctions by the US government against Guyanese should be on former PPP government officials who committed murder and sponsored death squads which committed extra-judicial killings and political assassinations of over 1400 African Guyanese ñ a genocide. Since Depoo now fancies himself as a lobbyist for sanctions against Guyanese, he should include the names of all of the PPP members and supporters who are currently under investigation by the US Justice Department for gold- smuggling and billions of dollars in money laundering. Certainly, they too have earned places on a US sanctions list.
Regards
Richard Millington
Director of Communication
Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID)