Gouveia, PSC doing national duty as a major civic society stakeholder

Dear Editor,
I noticed that some Peoples National Congress (PNC) zealots have come out of the woodwork to attack Mr Gerry Gouveia and the Private Sector Commission (PSC) for their advocacy for the elections’ process to be completed speedily and transparently.
In my view, at a time of grave national crisis — when Guyana is at its lowest point and about to implode from threats to its democracy by the know PNC rigging machine, aided and abetted by the GECOM, whose constitutional duty is to be an honest broker running clean elections — the PSC is doing its civic duty and God’s will, as any moral person or entity should do.
When others in civic society, such as the major churches and others, are silent or complicit with the PNC rigging apparatus, the PSC is doing exactly as it should be doing as a major civic society entity. We would be disappointed if they were not advocating far and near for a quick resolution to the political instability which affects job safety and security, and public health.
In matters of justice and fair play, there is no neutrality, no uncrossable line. When there is political instability, it is the business community that takes the brunt of the PNC’s access to urban violence and “slo fire, mo fire” strategies. The PSC knows that once PNC street violence is unleashed, as has been the PNC’s history at election time, the PNC’s “night duty” crew, as they were called by Ms. Volda, would create havoc, burning down businesses owned by perceived supporters of the PPP.
That’s why the nation is always tense at election time; and tense now, some two months after elections were held.
It is interesting that GHK Lall; Beni Sankar – a long time PNC man; and Harris find it necessary to take a whack at the PSC and personally attack Mr. Gouveia. The PSC, in its consistent position, had called on the PPP to concede in 2015, and had spoken out in previous elections; so you cannot say the PSC is aligned with the PPP. As Mr. Raffik of the PSC pointed out, the old PNC man Mr. Sankar my not have standing to say anything. GHK, who takes twice the column space than is necessary to make his point, seems divided within himself whether rigging should be condemned, or not. Notwithstanding he is not paid for his Gold Board job, GHK faithfully carries water for his political masters.
The PSC has not crossed any line. There is more for them to do in international lobbying for targeted sanctions as a swearing in of an illegal PNC President through rigging will destroy our economy, and the PSC is rightly concerned about that.
PSC must continue what it is doing, and more; and who vex vex.
My biggest disappointment is that Mr Harris, an old PNC “New Nation,” man, who served well at a major newspaper that fights for liberty and justice, did not take long to go back to his old PNC roots, with his first column directed at PSC and the courageous Mr Gouveia. Harris knows the international community would listen to a credible PSC representing major planks in the economy, so there is need to muddy the waters as to the PSC’s reasons for speaking out.
Mr. Harris, let people remember you as Editor-in-Chief of a mighty bastion for truth, not an apologist and lapdog for a disgraced PNC rigging machine. Don’t go the way of Moses, Khemraj, Clive, Rupert, Tacuma, Hinds, Lewis, and others.

Sincerely,
Jerry Singh