YOU survey the horizon of people who want the nation to know that the Government of Guyana is undemocratic and terrible, and when you are finished, the huge question is in front of you to be answered. Is what you are seeing a horror show or a circus where the clowns make you laugh?
Recently, I looked at a piece of adumbration from a perennial anti-government critic, Dr Nigel Westmaas (Tuesday, April 28, 2026) in which he literally traced the 60 years of political activism of Dr Clive Thomas, and did not even mention one word of the five years that Thomas spent as a serious power-wielder in the APNU+APNU government of 2015-2020.
That is either horrific or comical, and it is tantamount to someone tracing the film career of Sean Connery and omitting his role as James Bond. Are these the people you should listen to when they tell you that the Government of Guyana is flawed? Aren’t they more seriously flawed?
I was at the funeral event for Dr Rupert Roopnaraine. The MC was another perennial critic of the government, Dr Alissa Trotz. She began her address by mentioning what the world is going through today and the word to come out of her mouth was Gaza. She referred to the genocide in Gaza.
A week after her performance at the Roopnaraine event, Trotz was part of a group that took out a full page colour advertisement in Kaieteur News praising the Stabroek News (which had closed down) for giving coverage to the Gaza genocide and the plight of the Palestinian people. But that was completely untrue.
Stabroek News did not report on these issues and, in fact, completely blanked out Palestinian activities in Guyana during the Israeli massacre of Palestinian women and children. Was this a horror show or a circus?
Are these the people you should listen to when they tell you how bad the government is? So, May Day 2026 was the usual spectacle of anti-government denunciations.
It turned out to be both a horror show and a circus. I quote what the President of the Trade Union Council, Norris Witter said On May Day: “The PPP is a dangerous disease and therefore we must work together to determine what kind of dangerous medicine is required to get rid of this disease.”
This is the same Witter that is Vice-President of the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA). In which country of the world, a Vice-President of a human rights body refers to the democratically elected government as a disease and still wants to be recognised as an independent civil society entity? But in Guyana this happens.
The GHRA has an executive committee. Guyanese are going to wait in vain for any executive member to denounce Witter’s despicable emanation. Here are the executives: Larry Carryl (Engineer); Kerry Anne Cort-Kansinally (Data analyst-forestry); Michelle Kalamandeen (Remote sensing scientist – forestry); Cecil Morris (Disabilities activist); Natasha George (Data processor); Njuma Nelson (Chemist/water scientist); Marcelie Sears (Computer specialist); Teshanna Cox (Research officer); Troy Thomas (Snr. Lecturer, mathematics); Medino Abrams (Indigenous activist /religious leader); and Tiadi Welch (young businesswoman).
Is there anyone of these names that is going to issue a statement on the contradiction of their Vice-President calling the Government of Guyana a disease? How can he be a civil society activist yet have such insane political viewpoints?
Does anyone out there in Guyanese society know any of the 11 names listed above and be able to ask them for an explanation? If you can supply me with an email address or a telephone number for these 11 persons, please contact me at 614-5927 or fredkissoon@yahoo.com.
This is where the media comes in. But they will not seek a comment from the forever head of GHRA, Mike McCormack or the 11 persons named above. But the private media become vultures if a Minister of Government says something that is out of place.
This is the horror show and circus we have to live with in Guyana. Is it more horror or more circus? Well read what the parliament head of APNU had to say on Labour Day.
I quote Terrance Campbell: “The government is a wicked, evil, inhuman, despicable regime.” This outburst is coming from one of the leaders, a mere eight months after the PPP won a general election and increased its seats by three more.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, the APNU party of Campbell saw its seats go from 31 to 12. It is obvious that the electorate feels that Campbell’s party is the one that is wicked, evil, inhuman and despicable. There is both horror and comicality in anti-government politics in this land.

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