A LADY from Sweden told me at the Kaieteur News about seven years ago, that she cannot conceive of a columnist doing daily pieces.
She is one of dozens of persons who have asked me how I can do it; my answer has been the same. I can do two daily columns because in Guyana there is so much to take in that one daily reflection will not do it.

I have a list of columns to do, then guess what happened? Henry Jeffrey jumps on a sinking ship; he is on the PNC platform at a time when top PNC brains are abandoning ship.
So, I decided to write on Jeffrey for today’s article, pushing back my pieces on the election which is just four days away from today. And guess what? I will not be able to conclude my pieces that I have set aside to write on the election because another development got in the way – the Stabroek News (SN).
So, I am thinking of asking the editor to do two items a day. I doubt very much he will agree. So here am I today writing on a subject that never existed when I set out to use the keyboard yesterday (Monday).

So, what did SN do? I quote from their lead story yesterday (Monday) written by its editor-in-chief, Anand Persaud, titled, “Analysis, three-way race seen for election.”
Here is what Mr Persaud wrote: “WIN’s showing on Nomination Day on July 14 along the seawall on the way to the Umana Yana was an impressive sea of blue and had appeared to outrank even the PPP/C presence that day.”

That is vulgar, vicious, vindictive, degenerate, deceitful, and evil journalism. It is simply not true that WIN had the biggest contingent on Nomination Day. I was there. There are dozens of drone shots which researchers can use to determine the size of each party’s bandwagon.
The PPP’s numbers were almost double the size of WIN’s. The PNC had by far, a larger school than WIN’s. Since 2020, after the fall of the ANPU+AFC regime, I have been exposing the evil direction of SN’s journalism.

I have done dozens of pieces to bring out the anti-PPP hate this newspaper has cultivated. This newspaper and its editor have since 2020 simply gone mad.
Let’s quote again from the lead story: “The PPP/C has been accused of ignoring the plight of the poorer classes while it pursues massive infrastructural expansion, often without the desired result.”

This is not analysis. This is vulgarity in journalism. Oil income has enabled Guyana to spread money across the ethnic and class divides. It is an evil economist who would publicly say that oil money has not massively elevated the economy in which socio-economic progress is graphically imprinted on the face of this nation.
Read the following words from an anti-government commentator in the anti-government column that carries the title “In the Diaspora” in the very Monday, August 25 edition of SN: “Today, Guyana has access to unimaginable wealth from the ongoing oil exploration and extraction…. The discovery of billions of barrels of oil reserves has transformed us into the world’s most attractive economy.”

The “In The Diaspra” commentator is no fan of the PPP government, but he is stating what all Guyanese and people elsewhere in the world have seen, except SN. The socio-economic elevation in this country is ubiquitous and staggering. That is what oil money has done for Guyana and this is what oil money will do for Guyana in the future.

Is SN telling Guyanese that oil money has not been spent in ways that has shaped a future for the next generation? SN says the oceanic expansion of Guyana’s infrastructure has not shown the desired results at a time when a modern Demerara River Bridge, several new highways, airport expansion, massive creation of new roads, have changed the face of Guyana.
What is the analyst’s interpretation of this article in SN? Simply put, it is an anti-PPP tirade designed to influence the way people will vote. There is no mention of money paid out at the Square of the Revolution by WIN after the Nomination Day march.

There is no word on the talk aroundGuyana that WIN is paying people to be present at campaign meetings. There is no space devoted to the reason why GEGOM banned mobile phones in the polling booth. All Guyanese know that decision was designed to prevent vote-buying by WIN.
Yet SN tells us about a three-way race. The 2025 election holds two fascinations. By how large a margin will Irfaan Ali win? By how large a margin will the PNC lose? Next week’s election is about these things only.

DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited.