THERE are persons who write in the newspapers that you need to read. Not that what they have to say is impressive, plausible or even understandable. Why you have to read them is because what they write reveals the psychology of some people who target our minds.
They are frenetic critics of the leadership of the government and they posture as people who believe that the government does not adhere to constitutional requirements, legal rules and practise unacceptable governance. But these are the very people who have no respect for anything democratic.
So, in reading them you see how contorted the mentality of those who criticise the government is. Here is where reading them reveals the sordid side of Guyana and Guyanese see for themselves how unacceptable these people are. And your final decision is to dismiss them because they make no sense.
Herein lies one of the reasons the PPP romp home in the 2025 general election and the definitive reason why WIN secured the votes of traditional PNC constituencies. A majority of Guyanese believe that these frenetic anti-government demagogues are wild people that are barefacedly ignorant and hypocritical.
I will just name three of them before I move on to Amanza Walton Desir (AWD) to reinforce my point. Lincoln Lewis requested President Granger to cancel the 2020 election which Granger had no constitutional or legal power to do. The same Lewis said that the state should drop the 20 murder charges against the young lady in the Mahdia fire. This man has no right to even mention the word democracy
There is Henry Jeffrey. Mr. Jeffrey has an ingrained habit which has taken over his personality – he quotes from every international body that makes a criticism of the Government of Guyana. Mr. Jeffrey openly writes that the PPP rigged the 2020 election, but Mr. Jeffrey comes across as foolish in the eyes of those who read him because all the important international organisations in the world described the results of the 2020 election as free and fair. Conveniently, Mr. Jeffrey does not know about these reports.
Thirdly, there is David Hinds who, last week, said that he knows that people want the Americans to snatch those in Guyana that are like Maduro. If there were governmental leaders in Guyana like Maduro, then there would have been no Lincoln Lewis, Henry Jeffrey, David Hinds, Christopher Ram, Kaieteur News, Stabroek News and a long list of their ilk.
Maduro jailed and murdered his opponents. People who listened to that utterance of Hinds knew that Hinds is ignorant. In Guyana, critics of President Ali get away each day with sociological, cultural and political murder.
We come to AWD. She voted for Azruddin Mohamed to be leader of the Opposition. Then she put on Facebook images of her greeting WIN supporters outside Parliament. Where were her supporters? But more importantly, how could she vote for Mohamed and in the same breath make accusations of corruption against the government?
Here is what AWD said on a recent programme. She intoned that Guyanese people cry about what is happening in Venezuela in relation to what happened to Maduro but the Guyanese people must understand the current action in Guyana could lead Guyana down that road. She went on to lambast the government for all kinds of sins.
But this is coming from a woman who voted for Mohamed to be the Leader of the Opposition while the other major opposition party, APNU walked out. The question that AWD has to answer is why her former colleagues in the PNC walked out at voting time. In passing, it should be noted that APNU in Parliament only has one APNU parliamentarian, David Hinds. The PNC has the other 11 so it is not politically incorrect to say that AWD’s former PNC colleagues (not APNU) refused to vote for Mohamed.
So why did the PNC refuse to vote for Mohamed? “Refuse” is the correct word since the PNC chose not to stay and vote for him. Looked at from any grammatical angle, the PNC refused to vote for Mohamed. In doing so, the PNC parliamentarians showed more political skills than AWD.
The PNC was not stupid on this occasion. Given what Mohamed represents, how can the PNC vote for Mohamed to take up one of the most important constitutional offices in Guyana, then in the same breath accuse the government of corruption? This is the cul-de-sac that AWD has travelled into. She has lost credibility.
The gods will have to come from ancient Greece and attempt to save her when she opens her mouth in parliament. So why did she vote for Mohamed? Remember Brutus. Ambition can drive you onto to the same saddle with Macbeth.

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