AS long as 15 years ago, I decided that I would respond to questions I received on specific columns. I never proceeded with the project for two reasons. Once you start, you don’t know where it will end because the questions can increase greatly.
Secondly, time did not allow me (yes since 15 years ago right up to now) to devote columns to readers’ queries because each day, the past 15 years, necessitated an analysis on cascading events.

This is Guyana where indeed the events are uncontrollably cascading. People ask me all the time how I manage to do a column every day and I would laugh and ask them which country they live in.

In Guyana, things move with supersonic speed that you can do two columns a day. If another newspaper asks me to do a daily piece for it, once they pay, I will do it and of course keep my Guyana Chronicle page.

In this society, there is immense atrocities, immoralities and mischief that emanate from the private anti-government media, civil society groups, women’s groups, the opposition parties and their surrogates, the usual suspects (TUS), the lunatic fringe (TLF), the Mulatto/Creole class (MCC), the political nouveau lumpen (PNL). For more of the PNL, please see my column of May 17, 2022 titled, “A creeping dictatorship since August 2020: The political nouveau lumpen.”

Then there are the comical yet dangerous daily outpourings from the letter pages of the two anti-government newspapers and certain anti-government online publications and finally there is the irritating anti-oil lobby. When you take all of this into consideration, a columnist in this society can do two daily pieces.

Today, I will answer questions from emails I got as a reaction to two columns. The first is last Wednesday’s analysis in which I looked at the position Dominic Gaskin and Timothy Jonas took on the five month election rigging and suggested that people and organisations like Eusi Kwayana, Moses Bhagwan, Red Thread, the WPA, etc. should have emulated Gaskin and Jonas. That is they should have supported free and fair election in 2020 and if the PPP won and they did not want that, then they could have offered unrelenting opposition to the PPP government.

The other column was last Thursday’s on Mr. Glen Lall forming a political party very soon from now. The inquiries on why I think people like Kwayana, Bhagwan, Nigel Westmaas, Red Thread did not come out against the rigging, I will answer after I dealt with the queries I got as to why Mr. Lall is forming a political party.

I don’t have the answer for that. My thoughts on the issue are contained in the column itself. I can repeat myself in different words. I believe in the mind of Mr. Lall, he thinks people admire him, sees him as a savior and would like him to be in the next government. You can describe Mr. Lall’s entry into electoral politics as CN Sharma, part two.
Mr. Sharma thought that his television station made him so popular that people would vote him into power. What I can definitely pronounce on at this stage is that once Lall forms his party, it will be morally incumbent on me to write about his ineligibility for office. And I think he is trillions of miles away from achieving eligibility for office.
I got several emails in which readers solicited my view on why long-standing pro-democracy activists like Bhagwan and Kwayana did not do the right thing and allow the election to be fair then if the PPP did not govern to their liking they could have come out against it.

I was asked that if newcomers like Gaskin and Jonas could have seen the tragedy rigged elections bring, then, stalwarts like Bhagwan and Kwayana ought to have known better.
In several columns since April 2020, I have analysed the terrible falling down of the individuals and groups named above. I will briefly describe the landscape again but space will not permit elaboration. I think those individuals and organisations I named above have deceived an entire generation in this country.

Their fight against Burnham was to remove Burnham and form the government. They wanted power not democracy and free and fair elections. They wanted the government for themselves and they wanted to make sure the PPP and Cheddi Jagan are kept out.

This vividly and spectacularly explains the revelation of Mr. Ralph Ramkarran that WPA did not want to inform the PPP about what the WPA was doing in 1979 when it tried to topple Burnham. All of them were betrayers who were never multi-racial democrats.