IT has been 95 days since President Irfaan Ali announced September 1 as the date for national and regional elections. Political parties vying for office have had three months to convince the Guyanese electorate that they deserve their votes.
Tomorrow, the focus switches from politicians to the people who will shape this country’s trajectory for the next five years. Campaign promises and governance are not talking points, but the measure by which voters should judge political parties.
There is no doubt in my mind which party will get my vote. And that’s not because of my ethnicity, religion, or my career. When a party stands by its word and delivers, it earns not just votes but trust. And I believe that one excellent term deserves another and that bad behaviour should never be condoned or rewarded.
The leadership of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has said repeatedly that it has ‘fulfilled every single promise the party made in its 2020-2025 manifesto.’ It’s a testable claim. The opposition has had ample time to scrutinise and poke holes in it, but so far no one has been able to dispute that the “promises made, promises delivered,” as PM Mark Phillips has said at almost every single speech in the run-up to voting day.
The leadership of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), campaigned as if they had suddenly developed an acute case of amnesia over their 2015-2020 tenure in office and their attempt to rig the 2020 elections.
Their campaign strategists devised a backroom plan that involved muting any mention of the 2020 election fraud trial involving nine individuals closely associated with their party. PNCR-APNU can’t feign ignorance when Dr. Dexter Todd, their defence counsel, has been a fixture at PNCR-APNU’s campaign rallies.

Nigel Hughes, Amanza Walton-Desir and Simona Broomes cannot risk calling attention to their record.
There is nothing to speak of. Hughes is comfortable being in the pocket of ‘big oil,’ and he has already established that it’s not a cash cow he is prepared to take to the abattoir.
Voters are already aware that Hughes is more interested in the contents of his wallet rather than what’s in the bank account of ordinary Guyanese.
How about the Assembly of Liberty and Prosperity (ALP) party of Broomes? The totality of her experience equals half a day’s weight when compared to the Minister of Public Works, Bishop Juan Edghill. And I am being generous. Who can forget her involvement in the “parking lot scandal” in 2018? Broomes and her driver were accused of misrepresenting an altercation with security guards at the Amazonia Mall. Surveillance footage suggested she exaggerated the incident, leading to accusations of public mischief and criticism for having the guards detained for 16 hours without just cause.
Walton-Desir and her Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) are also vying for votes, but there is hardly any compelling reason why anyone should take her seriously. In 2021, AWD referred to People’s Progressive Party (PPP) supporters as “mentally lazy,” and she had the temerity to do it on public television. AWD was accused of being racist, discriminatory and repulsive, and she had never retracted nor apologised for her statement.
Although she was admitted to the bar in 2003, it appears she has a problem understanding the Constitution of her country. Just two days ago, Chief Justice Navindra Singh dismissed a case brought by FGM. Lawyers for FGM made a spurious argument that its name should appear on ballots when it hadn’t even submitted a list of candidates for that particular constituency. And now, Walton-Desir, already broke, has to pay costs of $1 million to GECOM and another million dollars to the Attorney General’s Chambers for bringing a frivolous claim to the courts days ahead of national and regional elections. If you can’t trust her decision-making process, how can she be trusted with leadership?

And then there is Azruddin Mohamed and his We Invest in Nationhood party. Neither he nor his party has ever invested anything in nationhood. It’s perhaps why he has nothing much to say beyond muttering a few words here and there. His campaign strategy has been: ‘say as little as possible, if anything at all.’ The nation now has CCTV camera evidence that ‘Team Mohamed’ did indeed visit the Venezuelan embassy in Georgetown on August 7, 2025, exactly like government officials claimed. Whose word will voters take, folks that deceived the state billions or a government that has spent billions of dollars to move the needle of this nation from poverty to prosperity?
When the dust settles and the noise fades, only results will remain. Guyana stands at the doorstep of progress or regression. The choice couldn’t be clearer. Tomorrow, let the ballot speak for what has been built, not empty boasts and broken trust.
A vote for the PPP/C is a vote to keep Guyana moving forward—a vote for roads, bridges, homes, healthcare and hope for the nation’s children. Make it count; the future is in our hands.