I AM not going to use the words, “one of the most.” I am asserting, without any conscious feeling that I am exaggerating, that it is the most nonsensical political writing I have ever seen on Guyana.
I am talking about an article in which Henry Jeffrey outlined how the PPP allegedly rigged the 2020 election.

Here is the percentage of fraudulent input in the 2020 general election by the PPP, region by region, as outlined by Jeffrey. “R” stands for Region. There was no mention of Region 8.
R1 – 34.6%; R2 – 74.8%; R3 – 67.9%; R4 – 55.4%; R5 – 50.5%; R6 – 77.4%; R7 – 70.5%; R9 – 53.7%; R10 – 17%.

These figures become comical when one considers the regions and the major parties’ standings in those regions over the decades.
How could it be that in Region 4 — which contains the largest percentage of voters in the country and where, in Georgetown itself, the PNC has enjoyed definitive victories since the 1950s — the PPP was somehow able to manipulate voting by 55 percent?

To think that an educated individual can write such nonsense is horrible. But even more tragic is the fact that there may be hopeless souls out there who actually believe what Jeffrey wrote.
The most compelling comicality in what Jeffrey wrote is something a primary school kid can identify. It is this – how was it possible logistically for an opposition party to pull off that incredibility and that impossibility?
The answer, evidently, must be the invincibility of the PPP.

Jeffrey is so stupid (and I offer absolutely no apology for using the word) that he cannot see that his article actually portrays the PPP as possessing supernatural powers.
If the PPP truly did what he claims in 2020, then it must be invincible. The reality — which the entire world is familiar with — is that there was nothing supernatural about the PPP’s victory. It won an election certified as free and fair by the international community.

Now Nigel Hughes continues where Jeffrey left off, and once more, an anti-government critic assigns omnipotent powers to the PPP.
Hughes has urged opposition supporters not to support an investigation by the Regional Security System (RSS), claiming it cannot be trusted. He cited the RSS’s alleged bias in the Cotton Tree double murder case from September 2020.

If the RSS cannot be trusted and it biased in its work on Guyana then the other side of that coin is Jeffrey’s invincibility theory.
If the RSS is going to be biased in favour of Guyana in its forensic investigation, then that gives Guyana immense clout over a prestigious regional body. It also argues that the RSS investigators are not professional people.

Hughes wants international investigators. But wasn’t it the most respected international inter-governmental organisations and the most powerful global organisations that certified that the PPP won the March 2020 elections?
But the AFC and PNC do not recognise the pronouncements of these entities on the 2020 elections, why then call for international involvement when you do not trust international actors of credibility?
The nasty dimension in rejecting the RSS is the contempt middle class West Indian societies have for their own regional bodies. The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) comes to mind. Top CARICOM countries like Trinidad and Jamaica have decided to continue with the Privy Council.

Why is this so? Because at a deep, Freudian level, the Mulatto Creole class (MCC) of the Caribbean sees Caribbean countries as inferior to Western ones. Nowhere is this more visible than in the continuation of the Privy Council.
Read the editorials in MCC-run newspapers like Stabroek News — a shamelessly pro-Western publication.

As recently as last week, one of its editorials claimed that in Western countries, when it is election time the ruling party in each country does not spend money to influence voters because those parties believe in a level-playing field.
What a cringing pro-colonial mind that wrote that editorial.

Read the never-ending anti-oil denunciations of the anti-oil lobby in Guyana. It is a sycophantic embrace of Western imperialism — the belief that Guyana must abandon its oil industry and rely instead on carbon credit compensation from Western nations.

Sixty years after Independence, some in Guyana still see the West as a superior civilisation.
One has to wonder: is Nigel’s anti-RSS stance rooted in resentment that the CCJ, a Caribbean body, shot down his innovative mathematical formula of 34 is the majority of 65 and not 33.

I wonder if Nigel trusts CCJ and thinks the Privy Council and the federal Supreme Court in the US are superior to the CCJ.

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