I GOT a call from my friend, Sanjeev Datadin, who enquired about a letter writer who attacks me. I told Sanjeev I don’t know the person but I doubt the name is real so I did not reply. They say never say the word, never, but I will never reply to anonymous persons.

That is dignifying the ugliest, most vulgar manifestations of moral degeneracy. Imagine, a person, hides under his mother’s dress, openly attacks a real, living human who is not afraid to publish his name, and laughs because you don’t know who he/she is. The anonymous pervert laughs because he/she gets the better of you because you react, but you are reacting to a person you don’t know.

It is important to reply to dangerous political, social and sociological distortions in both the mainstream media and social media when they are published by people who can influence young minds in such a young population. I would say about 70 percent of the people who make enquires of me when I am on the seawall or in the supermarkets are young people.

They want interpretations of the narratives they see in the public domain. If politically ugly narratives go unanswered, then innocent people swallow false doctrines and they embrace false reality and shallow history. I believe the reason why the PPP won traditional votes from the opposition in the 2023 local government elections and will win the 2025 general elections is because the opposition, the private media, and civil society groups that oppose the government lack credibility.

This lack of image and credibility gives the ruling PPP enormous scope for influencing people because they use efficacious language to expose these flawed critics of the government. Prominent members of civil society groups demanded that a young girl who allegedly set fire to a school dormitory and killed 20 teenagers must not be charged with murder but arson. The TUC General Secretary, Lincoln Lewis, wants the DPP to drop the charges against the said accused.

These same voices want the government to come out of oil production so Guyana can help save the world, including countries whose incomes Guyana will not catch up with in a billion years to come. Dr. Henry Jeffrey wrote that in the 2020 election, every Region of the 10 Regions of Guyana experienced PPP perpetuated fraud, ranging from 20 percent to 60 percent.

This was an election in which the PPP was in the opposition and the PPP did not control the army, the police, and the GECOM Secretariat.
Since the Ali presidency came into being, the Stabroek News and Kaieteur News have not done even one editorial finding something positive in what the government does.

Why would anyone think decent Guyanese are so blind to these people’s political insanities that they will listen to what they have to say about the government?
There is a letter in the Stabroek News (SN) yesterday (Tuesday) by a familiar anti-government voice in the letter pages of the SN.
He laments the state of the nation on the 58th anniversary of Independence and he calls for a new vision for 2025. But as usual, the emphasis is on the government and nothing else.

This man was a journalist in Guyana before he migrated 30 years ago. But he does not call for a new journalism in Guyana on the 58th year of Independence. In a letter a few months ago, he penned the following words” “In my next letter, I will focus on the vital role of the local media in helping to educate and inform Guyanese about their rights and roles as citizens.” We are still to see the letter.

Please see my rejection of any suggestion that the private media educate Guyanese in my column of Wednesday, March 13, 2024, titled, “The press educates Guyanese? Really!” This gentleman writes: “There is no real sense of accountability and transparency.” Guess who he is referring to – The Guyana Government. Obviously, he is not referring to the Guyana Press Association in which an election was held for office-bearers that lacked even a modicum of transparency and accountability.

Obviously, he is not referring to the Guyana Human Rights Association in which no one knows who makes up its board of directors, if it has a board at all.
Obviously, he is not referring to the Stabroek News in which the newspaper flatly refuses to name its board of directors and who the owners are. The gentleman lives in the US. And he should know such information is public by law. As we celebrate 58 years of independence, there are some in our midst who are enemies of democracy.