THERE are two perennial anti-government actors that are relentless in their anti-PPP and anti-government stances.
I have covered the reason for that political insanity in dozens of columns, particularly from 2023, so that analysis need not be repeated here; sufficeth to say class and race have determined and motivated the frenetic anti-government obsession of these two actors.

They are the General-Secretary (GS) of the Guyana Trade Union Congress (TUC), Lincoln Lewis and the Mulatto/Creole business newspaper, the Stabroek News (SN). I repeat the word, “relentless” in their incessant condemnation of both the organisations named the People’s Progressive Party and the Government of Guyana (GoG).
SN is at it every day. The only manifestation of hate left to be seen is SN openly saying that the PPP should go away forever from Guyana. Lincoln Lewis has been the GS of the TUC for 32 years now.

If ever there is a one-man army in Guyana, it is Lewis. He is the GTUC and the GTUC is Lewis. He is the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) and the CLC is Lewis.
Lewis writes a letter every week against the government and he has a weekly column in an online newsletter, “Village Voice,” for which he was taken to the court for copyright infringement and lost. Lewis was charged for assaulting a woman and appeared at the Mahaica Magistrate Court. I have not followed the outcome of that case.
These two actors have compiled an ocean of criticism against the GoG that on most occasions sickens the mind. One editorial of SN commented on a still photo of the President, Vice President and two Cabinet ministers.

SN concluded that the way the President was sitting shows he is not in charge of the government. See my column of Saturday, May 17, 2025, “The image of four men around a table.” Lincoln Lewis wants the alleged arsonist who burned 20 youths alive at the dormitory at Mahdia to have the charges dropped.
Lewis and SN have completed a figurative book on the inherent incompetency of the PPP government. But are Lewis and SN in any position to talk about incompetency, much less make accusations against the government?

Let’s look at the brutal, graphic, incredible, barrenness of the administration of Lewis and SN. These are the facts. They cannot be erased.
Months after a huge fire at the GTUC head office due to an electrical fault, another fire hit the same building, destroying the CLC. The GTUC has admitted that all students’ records and all the trade union documents stretching back to 50 years are gone.

This is the year 2025. Rewind the tape 20 years ago; humans have been putting files on diskettes then flash drives.
Go to any tiny business anywhere in Guyana and they have a flash drive with their import and export files and other business documents, plus details of customers’ accounts. It is incredible incompetence for which Mr Lewis should be dismissed instantly.

Why in 2002, 2005, 2010, 2020, 2023, there were no efforts to digitalise CLC and GTUC records? Digitalisation is the world we live in today.
The fire service says the first fire was electrical. After that you run a check on the wiring of the entire building. Read tomorrow’s newspapers and Lewis with his “brilliant competence” will tell the Guyana Government how to run the affairs of Guyana.

We come now to the SN. I refer to page 130 of the book, “Birth of Stabroek News,” in which the founder of the newspaper, David DeCaires, said that the objective of the founding of the newspaper was to resuscitate a business culture in Guyana. And to achieve this goal the newspaper would have a weekly supplement on business.
Here is a newspaper that since its birth more than 30 years ago has a business page, but the newspaper knows nothing about business. Get up early in the morning and you can read online the Guyana Chronicle, the Guyana Times and Kaieteur News freely.

Renowned Guyanese and British journalist John Mair said SN is owned by the wealthy family of DeCaires. Yet, when you go to the newspaper to read it online, it says, you must log in.
Why is it that the other papers allow free readership but you have to subscribe to SN? What is it in the business side of Chronicle, Kaieteur News and Guyana Times that you can read them freely, but not SN?
Is it because serious business planning is absent? Go to the editorial of SN today, tomorrow the next day, you will see a lecture on how incompetent the Guyana Government is. This is the mother of all ironies.

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited.