Are GECOM Opposition Commissioners “hands clean?”

Dear Editor,
The question, ‘Are you man or mouse?’ is often posed to exemplify bravery aligned to courage, contrary to, timidity associated with fear. What makes a man a man is waxed in John Steinbeck’s 1937 novel, “Of Mice and Men.” “Three Blind Mice” was cradled by Agatha Christie in 1947 as a play when Queen Mary requested one of her favorite writers to pen a new story for her 80th birthday. In 1948, as a twisted tale, it was published in a book exploring themes of isolation, deception and the fragility of trust within a confined space.
In the famous 007 series, the first James Bond starring Sean Connery, filmed the movie “Dr. No,” in Jamaica. The plot screens an entertaining scene with three blind men enacting three blind mice. The background music features the song “Kingston Calypso,” which is a calypso version of the nursery rhyme “Three Blind Mice,” performed by Byron Lee and The Dragonaires. Needless to say, the men pretended to be blind in order to achieve their deadly motive!
The Opposition Commissioners sitting on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), comprise of three crafty, cunning and calculating men, namely, Vincent Alexander, Desmond Trotman and Charles Corbin, all PNC proteges from dictator Burnham’s belly.
They are all already burnout as they ceremoniously, customarily and callously continue to walk out, as expected, from GECOM’s meetings, beaten, battered and bruised. Advancing on fishing expeditions, they are laying the foundation to hold this nation at ransom with Guyanese as hostage while they attempt to place their knees on GECOM’s neck.
Vincent Alexander once wrote, “I hope their hands are clean. Let the chips fall where they may,” in a Kaieteur News letter dated 23rd March, 2016.
This is the same Vincent Alexander who in April 2025 at the 2nd meeting of the 4th Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD4), organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), claimed that, the African Guyanese community “has been systematically marginalized, and remains disproportionately at the bottom of the economic and social order.” He was speaking as Chairman and on behalf of the International Decade for People of African Descent.
Crying and claiming that apartheid exists in Guyana under the PPP/C administration without presenting an iota of substantial, significant or soul-searching truth, behind his back, has he been laughed, mocked and ignored by the United Nations, the White House, CARICOM, Africa and by the invited American delegation chosen to come “discover for themselves?”
Ironically, it was the PNC who manufactured the formation of a private company called IDPADA-G and channeled money to the fund in the vicinity of $100M per year, with “little or nothing to show for it.” The organization received some half a billion dollars over the years with the greater portion spent on administrative expenses and only a meagre percent spent on projects benefiting Afro Guyanese. The members of that organization have been accused of “failing Afro-Guyanese ….. but they are living the good life…..”
In the 2020 General and Regional Elections, Alexander did not find Lowenfield’s proposal for his 156 days to recount the votes, “unfound, ridiculous and malicious.”
The other gentleman, Desmond Trotman, was sworn in as an Opposition Commissioner. He joined GECOM in 2017, as a “Guyanese first” and encouraged fellow Commissioners not to think along party lines.
Desmond Trotman supported Granger’s violation of the constitution in Granger’s unilateral appointment of Justice Patterson as GECOM chair. He voted in GECOM against the contract renewal of Vishnu Persaud, Deputy Chief Election Officer in favor of Roxanne Myers and Charles Corbin.
He never owned up to Mingo’s fraudulent attempt to rig the 2020 election result with fictitious numbers. He also voted for GECOM to accept Lowenfield’s false report drilled with inaccurate figures to forge a declaration in favor of a Granger’s victory.
Former President Granger had said of him, “My judgment prevails, Mr. Trotman is the fittest person… you can’t fake experience.” Trotman swore that, “he will never be involved in election rigging!”
As an executive of the five-man WPA, he joined hands with the PNC, the finger of Burnham, who was the acclaimed intellectual architect as an instrument to orchestrate the assignation of the founder of the WPA. As a Guyanese, his finger is stained with the color red.
These three men of variable stature, had to acknowledge the fact that the African Prosperity Network had bestowed President Irfaan Ali with its African Global Leadership award. The African Banking Institutions are financing investments in Guyana. The African nations are embracing the leadership of President Irfaan Ali. Will the three Opposition Commissioners remain impartial and execute their duties with honesty, integrity and justice?

Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall