Dear Editor,
AS the PPP/C members proudly wear the colourful red, they have nothing to fear as the election date draws near. Come Sunday, the panoramic Kitty Market Square will be transformed with the kaleidoscopic faces into an impressive Kodak view, outnumbering the poor, porous and petty turnout at the Cuffy Square.
The thrilling turnout at Leonora, Everest, the Arthur Chung Centre and at Albion did send a chill down the spines of promising potential presidential possibilities. But of course, September 1 will decide, dictate and determine who will be the rooster to roost. Will the CCJ enjoy another round of paid, painful and pleasurable belly full of laughs again? The PNC will need 34 seats (their maths) to walk away with the coveted prize.
Ask any Guyanese and she or he will tell you that it’s not about getting the first jump in the race or where you are during the race, but how and where you will finish the race. The PNC (all peas of the same pod) launched their hope, aspiring to accomplish a dream. Looks like they were out at lunch instead. Some 7,000 votes will be required to win a seat.
The crowd fell short of that number, possibly refusing to be associated with the sore sight of a PNC miscreant in the background – Durban Park. That colossal reminder of corruption represents the missing monumental $600 million! The PAC is cringing, figuring out how to hide the PNC’s fingering with figures!
The PNC’s election campaign kicked off with hot air, water balloons and Kool-Aid. The Executive forgot Haile Selassie’s advice, “A house built on granite and a strong foundation, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull it down.” False hopes, empty promises and elusive dreams are abstracts which will only distract and not attract conscientious Guyanese.
A dismembered PNC is in disarray and has lost distinguished members who have disassociated themselves from poverty, nakedness and corruption. The leader has started off on the wrong foot with the other foot in his mouth.
Sugar is very close to Guyanese hearts. It sweetens the tongue and provides food for the stomach. It also swings the head and makes the foot wobbly. The PNC is singing the same tune from 2015, but again this time, Guyanese will not dance to their rhythm and fall for their tongue-twisting tricks. The PNC destroyed some 40,000 lives when it broke the backs of sugar workers between 2015 and 2020.
It took a PPP/C Government to repair the damage and provide relief to the sugar industry and the workers. The PNC will never allow the sugar industry to thrive in Guyana, and can never be trusted to secure, sustain or save sugar workers in any form or shape for them to survive. The envious PNC will always unreservedly grudge the sugar workers, unhesitatingly nurse a callous vendetta, and unendingly pursue a programme to punish sugar workers. That is not their puerile, but their promised purpose, simply because the PNC is sour and not sweet news for sugar workers.
The AFC is “dead meat”, and the members are flogging a dead horse. When you have fork-tongued people who speak in a foreign language aloof from Guyanese sacrifices and the struggling way of life of our fore-parents, their ideologies cannot synchronise with the subtleties subjected to the man in the street. A latrine is aberrant to the person with a silver spoon, and the sweat on the rice farmer’s face goes unnoticed and unappreciated. The AFC’s polished shoes cannot afford to get muddy in the backlands of those pulling the cassava and the eddoes.
The AFC now wants to renegotiate the oil contract, the worst agreement they signed in the history of the industry. Were they “spaced” out when ‘Nassau was calling?’ Who pulled the string, and who authorised the finger to do the dirty work in Texas? Guyanese will not forget who “colonised” this country for a second time. It was the AFC’s “Harvard Law School-trained negotiator” who took the wind out of Guyana’s sail when he leashed Guyanese to the chain with his own hand.
According to the PNC Government mouthpiece of December 30, 2017, the then Minister of Natural Resources disclosed in his confession, “What Exxon enjoys, others are not going to enjoy…”, Yes, the AFC led us back into history when we had to slave once again for a new master. Who is having the last laugh? Stuck with the sanctity of the contract, these hypocritical, controversial tongue-twisters now want Guyanese to give them a chance to redeem themselves when they have already syphoned off the hog of the meat.
Standing by silently was the legal expert for our new “King and Queen”, who was part and parcel of the ridiculous deal. He is holding Guyanese to ransom. Either make him “King President”, or he crawls back into his comfort zone, and will ensure that Guyanese will never get their true worth from any oil deal. A man sitting on top of a wall with his feet on either side is not grounded, and can never represent Guyanese interests genuinely, except his own.
Guyanese are not getting younger, but growing older in this fast-paced, developing world of technology with advanced interventions and modern applications. When the winds of change shift, Guyana will need to fall back on a mature and experienced versatility that is accustomed to seasonal exposure, essential to anchor its stability. The answer lies with a tried and tested professional PPP/C to guarantee such a necessary foundation, despite the number of bricks thrown at them.
A free bird, fearless of any foes, come Sunday, the famous PPP/C will firmly flap its wings to soar in the sky to make the other 20 parties “see red”.

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall