SINCE the PPP/C won the 2025 election, there has been no analysis from civil society organisations (the Usual Suspects – TUS) as to the factors that contributed to the PPP/C’s increase in seats and the near collapse of the PNC. The Stabroek News has not done an editorial on the two subjects. The Guyana Human Rights Association has not attempted an evaluation. The Red Thread people are silent. The Stabroek News column, “In the Diaspora”, has gone into the silent zone. Transparency Institute, Guyana Chapter Inc., has become opaque. Policy Forum Guyana and SASOD are nowhere to be seen.
The anti-oil bandwagon would respond by saying their forte is not politics and sociology, but climate debate, so there is no reason for looking at the 2025 election results. Some of the TUS personalities who belong to the Mulatto/Creole class (MCC), like Nigel Westmaas and Percy Hintzen, have chosen not to comment. Why is there no intellectual opinion on the two political developments – the PPP/C’s electoral resurgence and the PNC’s electoral devastation?
The story resembles the chagrin that overtook the MCC and TUS (they both overlap), after the Ali presidency of August 2020 came into being. On September 3, 2025, a number of these groups listed above wrote GECOM demanding GECOM investigate Commonwealth citizens voting in the 2025 poll. It was the story of 2020 all over again in relation to how the TUS and MCC people feel about another victory for the PPP/C.
These groups called into question the legitimacy of the election based on the complaint about Commonwealth citizens voting. They named only East Indian Commonwealth citizens, particularly from Bangladesh and India. They point to truckloads of these Commonwealth folks arriving at polling stations. GECOM responded through its PR spokesperson, Yollanda Ward. This has to be one of the world’s most competent PR officials; Ms. Ward is brilliant and good at her job.
She would be an asset to any international body. Ms. Ward demolished every argument by the TUS and MCC people. GECOM concluded by pointing an accusatory finger at the Guyana Human Rights Association, accusing it of attempts to create mischief.
On the day (September 3, two days after the Monday election) of the publication of the complaints by TUS and MCC in the Stabroek News, I scroll down to the comments section to the article in the online edition of the newspaper and every observation pointed to the silence of these TUS people in the 2020 election disaster and how they have suddenly found their voice.
Now, here is an interesting omission in the comments section. The Stabroek News’ sycophants were completely absent. Even to this day, almost two months after the publication of that story, there are no words from the usual Stabroek News sycophants. Why?
I believe Ms. Ward shut the mouths of the TUS and MCC and the international observers shut their mouths too. But the most effective action in shutting the mouths of the TUS and MCC was GECOM itself. It ran an impeccable operation that made the 2025 election process completely legalized and legal. Interestingly, the TUS and the MCC picked on a statement by the Carter Centre on the need for legislation in campaign financing.
Guess who were the two persons who cried out loudly about that aspect of the Carter Centre Report – Lincoln Lewis and Henry Jeffrey. And it is these two men, who up to this day insist that the PPP/C stole the 2020 election, when the Carter Centre Report for 2020 concluded that the PPP/C won the 2020 election through a legal and legitimate voting pattern. Just to remind you, Jeffrey was on the PNC platform for the 2025 election. For 5 years, since 2020, he has spouted the most politically stupidities that can come out of the mouths of a human; he and the PNC were rejected by African Guyanese on voting day, 2025.
We conclude with an examination of the efforts by the TUS and MCC to inject a racial factor in rejecting the legitimacy of the 2025 election. The TUS and MCC complained about truckloads of East Indians arriving to vote. How ignorant are these anti-government personalities?
There are farming organisations in Guyana that have foreign Indian Commonwealth citizens. They live on the estates. There are foreign Indian employees who can be found in manufacturing companies. If they are going to vote, it is commonsensical that because they work the same hours in the same companies, their employers would ensure that they are provided transport to go to vote. What is so mysterious about such a movement? The TUS and the MCC have again failed in 2025.
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