QUITE often, people would ask me why I bother to respond to David Hinds and his acolytes like Henry Jeffrey. I get the following reaction – people don’t pay any attention to them, so don’t bother with them.

That observation is right. When you think of the volume of anti-PPP output for five years (2020 -2025) from David Hinds, Henry Jeffrey, Lincoln Lewis, Mark Benschop, Norman Browne, GHK Lall, Christopher Ram, Kaieteur News, Stabroek News, the Guyana Human Rights Association, Red Thread etc, then it was impossible for the PPP to survive electorally.

These people were relentless in the mainstream media and on social media. Someone has to explain how not only did the PPP survive but it had an impressive victory in the 2025 elections. The PPP’s victory proves that the names above were ineffective, and do you know one of the reasons for that ineffectiveness was and is because people have spent five years countering and confronting the names listed above?

Think of it; had it not been for the counter-narratives then those names above would have managed to fool people. Someone like Joel Bhagewandin has done a thorough job debunking the fictions of the anti-oil critics, especially Christopher Ram and the Oil and Gas Governance Network. Had there been no Bhagwandin and Leonard Craig, there are people out there that would believe that EXXON’s profits are in the trillions, and Guyana gets nothing.

Guyanese read the response to the anti-government critics, and they learn. People read Ralph Ramkarran, Kit Nascimento, Neville Bissember, Walter Persaud, Tara Singh, Nazim Baksh, Michael Young and many others who expose the moral bankruptcy and political charades of those that sermonise Guyanese daily with a menu of deceptions, racial miasma, and falsehood.

It is for this crucial reason that it is imperative to reply to the extremists like Hinds and Jeffrey and others because we should not allow even one mind to be swayed by them. It is easy to demolish their agenda because their agenda is a repetitive tune. It is about African Guyanese, and the intent is to fool African Guyanese.

So, you reply to them to expose them and when you expose them, then that vulnerable mind is saved and the extremists become ineffective. I saw a programme with Hinds and Jeffrey and there is no secret about it, these men do not hide their intention; it is to fool African Guyanese.

So, Jeffrey says there was no cross-racial voting. You have to expose Jeffrey’s asininity because you want him to be exposed as someone with a dastardly agenda. Any schoolboy can detect cross-racial voting in the last general election. Why that is easy is because people in the world that are familiar know that Africans since the 1950s voted for the PNC and Indians since that time vote for the PPP and you know this is so because of where they live.

Indians live in Enmore, Leonora etc. Africans live in Buxton, Golden Grove etc. Amerindians live in Laluni, etc. When the votes are counted and the PNC wins in Leonora and the PPP wins in Buxton then you know there is cross-racial voting. Against this graphic reality, Jeffrey told Hinds there was no cross-racial voting when the PPP and WIN picked up substantial votes in African areas, votes that since 1959 to 2020 went to the African dominated PNC.

Even though most Guyanese would find what Jeffrey had to say as comical and asinine, it is still obligatory to confront his stupidity out of the fear that he may attract an unsuspecting mind. Do you think Jeffrey is incapable of assessing the statements of poll to ascertain if there was cross-racial voting? He is capable but Jeffrey’s agenda is to deceive African Guyanese.

Here now is pyrotechnical evidence that David Hinds’ politics is about fooling Guyanese. He said in his podcast the following words, “I never see so much nonsense in my entire life about people saying WIN is an Indian party. WIN is an African party with an Indian leader.”

You have to be really imbecilic not to see that this is an intention to fool African people. WIN is not an African party and will not be an African party because its Indian leader would not want it to be an African party. You have to silly to actually believe what Hinds said. But here now, once more there is more evidence of Hind’s deception. He told Jeffrey that WIN is a front for the PPP.

So, in one breath it is an African party that African Guyanese voted for, then in another breath this African party that Africans voted for is a front for the “Indianised PPP.” Yuh hear nonsense!

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