I ONCE remarked on this page that Tacuma Ogunseye and David Hinds confine their race hate advocacy to the village of Buxton or a nearby village with predominantly African citizens. They never step out of that cocoon. I remember writing that Ogunseye and Hinds would never sponsor a meeting in Georgetown.

The WPA will never hold a public meeting in any part of Georgetown where they are the featured speakers. No one from Georgetown would go to listen to them. The reality is David Hinds, who speaks to African Guyanese four times in a week preaching miasmic racism, has no followers.

Hinds comes across to people in the following ways: (1) a lunatic, (2), an extremist who just rants and raves, (3), a man full of hate who has lost his mojo, and (4) a figure of yesterday just hitting out at Guyana and the world. These typologies reveal two things. One is that people do not take him seriously and secondly, scrapeheads find him entertaining. The 2025 election campaign has revealed that he is a political preacher who is facing ignominious defeat.

Hinds appeared at the funeral of Adriana Younge and was mixing about furiously, consoling Adriana’s mother and her aunt, Amika Lewis, who was the chief cook and bottle-washer in the Adriana Younge drama. This very aunt, a hostile anti-PPP figure who overzealously milked her niece’s tragedy for political purposes, is on the nomination list of Azruddin Mohamed party.
If my memory serves me right, Azruddin Mohamed is East Indian, and Hinds has warned Indians about two things – they must keep their mouths out of the affairs of Black people, and Africans

who join a party other than an African outfit is a backside licker. But surely, Mohamed had to push his mouth into Black people’s business by asking Lewis to join him.
Why did Lewis join Mohamed and did not climb on Hind’s run-away race-bait train? She did not for the very reason that Hinds’s own daughter, Tabita Sarabo-Halley joined the slate of Mohamed. And what is that reason? Hinds comes across as a racially driven madman that Guyana has no time for.

Lewis and Sarabo-Halley did not accept Hinds’ demand that African Guyanese must only associate with African entities. Which African Guyanese that is of rational mind would accept people telling them that? Hinds, Rickforde Burke, Mark Benschop and Tacuma Ogunseye are their own enemies. They alienate Black people because they talk down to Black Guyanese and tell them how they must think.

The 2025 election campaign has shown that Hinds was always a loser. What Hinds, Benschop, Ogunseye and Burke believe is that they are rock stars that Guyanese Africans worship. They are delusional people. Remember Benschop thought he was a rock star and contested the 2015 general election naming his party after himself.

He got 112 votes and, instead of hiding beneath a rock, still thinks he is a rock star. Right now if a pollster takes a poll with five names – Hinds, Benschop, Ogunseye, Burke and Azruddin Mohamed and asks African Guyanese to rate them, Mohamed will come out on top. That is how contemptuous African Guyanese feel about these four extremists. Africans in and out of Guyana think that these are not rational men.

Ironically, the man who feels that Hinds and his acolytes are sane people is none other than Aubrey Norton. Instead of willingly grabbing on to commonsense, Norton sought refuge in the politics of self-fooling. He told the Guyanese people that Hinds is passionate about his politics and that he, Norton, welcomes his presence in APNU.

But people see Hinds as politically imbalanced and, by extension, Norton. The same Norton was at Adriana Younge’s funeral where he spoke. But the aunt, Amika Lewis, chose the party of an Indian man rather than the party of Norton. One wonders how Hinds and Norton are feeling. Let me take you back 60 years ago to the south Georgetown lingo.

In those days, when someone was badly embarrassed, we would say, “he feels like a cent ice.” I think that type of lingo has gone out so the present generation does not utter it. But I would say that Norton and Hinds feel like a cent ice. Now you must at all times remember that Norton was with the Younge family from day one of the tragedy, using the Younge family for political mileage. Hinds was on social media from day one of the drama, using the girl’s death to incite race hate. But the chief cook and bottle-washer of the Adriana Younge scandal, Amika Lewis, is not with the PNC led by Norton or WPA led by Hinds but with Azruddin Mohamed.

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