Dear Editor,
Winston Jordan was not invited to attend the IMF’s Managing Director’s Virtual Meeting with Western Hemisphere Ministers of Finance and Central Bank Governors, held on April 14th; Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Dr Gobind Ganga, was our nation’s sole representative.
The Guyana Elections Commission; its Chairman, Justice (retd) Claudette Singh, and the Secretariat headed by Keith Lowenfield have effectively made pariahs of the Government of Guyana, and have placed the citizens in a vulnerable position during a global pandemic.
The excuses for inaction have worn thin, and the countless delays over inanities have pushed the boundaries of patience to their limits.
Mr Keith Lowenfield demonstrated great logistical ability to prepare over two thousand three hundred polling stations, complete with staff, signage, ballot papers, minutely-labelled envelopes, training of thousands of Presiding Officers and polling-day staff, stamps, transportation, meals… You name it and Keith Lowenfield and the GECOM Secretariat thought of it, and spared no expense in delivery.
That this same man and Secretariat are now finding a challenge in preparing twenty workstations, taking envelopes with votes already separated and counting them, beggars belief. Mr. Lowenfield must not take the nation for fools any longer.
Guyana needs a legitimate government based on credible verification of the Region Four votes; the prevarication is vexing and will inevitably cause loss of lives.
One person has lost his life as a result of the fraud attempted by GECOM. I am certain that as Devon Subhan lay bleeding in the street, his last thoughts were curses on many of the familiar names. I am also sure these persons are unbothered by such thoughts, and will be until it is their kith and kin that are lying on gurneys gasping for breath as COVID-19 fills the lungs with mucus and slowly chokes the life from their bodies.
But the actors at GECOM, without ill-intent, need not worry; for they may find comfort in Proverbs 26:2, “Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, so a curse without cause does not alight”. For those who have acted in bad faith and continue to do so, may a thousand sparrows alight upon your house!
Yours respectfully,
Hemraj Vishaul
Kissoon
