WE will come to the ghoulish politics of the others, but let’s start with David Hinds. After the deluge of objections against his racist fulminations, I saw his next social media output and when I listened to what he said, immediately I think of my favourite repartee in both English and Indian movies.
The film is From Russia with Love. Specter agent, Grant, cornered Bond and before he attempted to shoot Bond, he went on a rant about how he plans to announce the news of Bond’s death. With extreme coolness, Bond looked at Grant and said: “Tell me, which lunatic asylum they got you out from.” That really enraged Grant.

As I looked at Hinds parading his bogus nationalism, the Bond scene came to my mind. So what did Hinds say? He exclaimed that when PPP leaders go to African villages and promise things, then in exchange the villagers must come over to the PPP, he will prevent that because the PPP has to get past him first.

But it is extremely easy to get past Hinds. You can get past any human who is not in your pathway. Hinds is not in Guyana so he cannot offer himself as a shield to any individual much less a village. Who is this man that PPP leaders have to cross his path before they can move forward in any African village?
Hinds left Guyana about 30 years ago and returns episodically. Hinds never spent three consecutive months in Guyana the past 25 years. Hinds is not a lawyer so he can’t help African litigants who cannot afford a paid attorney. Hinds is not a medical doctor who can tend to the sick in African villages.

Hinds is not an engineer who can assist African villagers with drainage and irrigation. Hinds is not a businessman who does charity service for African Guyanese.
Hinds is a teacher that gives his service to the United States and has not contributed even one hour to any literacy programme in this country or has ever graced a high school classroom with his presence to help with the teaching of any subject. Finally, Hinds is not a Guyanese resident so the GRA receives not a cent from Hinds and the retail trade receives no patronage from Hinds.

I challenge David to refute what I will now write. Two months ago, I called him for an appearance on the Freddie Kissoon Show. He told me he is not in Guyana. I honestly thought that with the announcement of him being the presidential candidate of the WPA and ongoing talks with the PNC on coalition politics and press releases and press briefings that he was in Guyana.

The General Secretary of the PNC, Sherwin Benjamin is someone I knew long before he became a PNC bigwig. Here is what he told me last week. I read that there was a joint meeting between the PNC and WPA abut coalition talks, so I called Sherwin to find out if David was at the meeting so I can contact him for the Freddie Kissoon Show. Sherwin told me that David appeared via zoom. The man does not live in Guyana and is never in Guyana.

Yet, despite this distance from Guyana in which his absence and invisibility are larger than the Taj Mahal for every Guyanese to see, Hinds tells us that before PPP leaders can go and demand loyalty from African villagers, they have to cross his path. Obviously, that pathway is in his imagination.
So almost every week, PPP leaders as part of their ministerial duties, are in Guyanese villages which include African villages. But David is not there. Or could it be that he is there and the ministers walk right pass him because he is ghost and you can actually walk past a ghost? So tell me David, which lunatic asylum they got you out from?

We tend to focus on Hinds because he is extremist, openly racist and come across as unbalanced. But there are others like Hinds only that their bizarre politics is episodic and not consistent like Hinds.
But the weirdness is there. Let me quote, the former High Commissioner to Guyana from the UK, Mr. Greg Quinn in the 7th edition, 2025, of the book, Oil Darado: “What was the second poorest country in the region after Haiti has now become the country with the fastest growth rate in the world. All driven by unprecedented oil and gas discoveries that will provide Guyanese with the resources to fundamentally change their lives.”

But Vanda Radzik, her sister Danuta, Nigel Westmaas, Alisa Trotz, Janet Bulkan, Melinda Janki, Andre Brandli, Percy Hintzen and their acolytes urge that we leave the oil in the ground. Aren’t they bizarre like David Hinds?

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