Dear Editor,
September 1st, 2025 is a historic day for Guyanese who have to make the most vitally important decision which will not only affect their lives but those of their children, grandchildren and the future generations of Guyanese. It is Election Day. And this election has been rightfully dubbed ‘the Mother of All Elections’.
In the past Guyanese have had to endure several rigged elections: from 1968 to 1985 and the massively rigged 1978 Referendum which gave the PNC nearly 98 per cent of the votes. We barely missed the rigging in the 2020 Elections. It must be remembered that the first free and fair election since 1964 was held in 1992 which saw the PPP/C taking its rightful place as the Government. It was the beginning of progress and prosperity for Guyanese, having been once categorised as worse off than Haiti (McIntyre Report 1989), Guyana moved up as a middle income country and its people enjoyed an increasingly higher standard of living, as never experienced before. This period lasted until 2015 when the APNU (PNC) and the AFC entered into a destructive coalition which once again massively eroded the gains made by the PPP/C, not unlike what happened in 1964. Dr Walter Rodney had made a memorable interpretation of the Midas Touch- he had said that everything that Burnham touched turned to sh….This legacy of infamy never deserted the PNC.
Therefore, no matter what Norton promises in this year’s election it will never be believed. The PNC and its associates will always have the opposite of the Midas Touch. The track record of the PNC speaks for itself and no number of baptisms will ever grant it absolution for its nefarious and abominable misdeeds perpetrated on the Guyanese people. Guyanese must say emphatically, ‘Never again’.
In the past, the Alliance for Change (AFC) at its formation in 2005 had sworn never to associate or coalesce with the PNC but they created havoc to the economy from 2011 to 2015 by a de facto coalition in Parliament which drastically pushed back the progress made by the PPP/C Government. They then became a coalition Government in the 2015 Elections and together they began their journey of destruction to the Guyanese economy. Today, true to Khemraj Ramjattan’s prediction, the AFC is ‘dead meat’ and the cremation is completed.
Today, another deluded adventurer has joined the political stage. His party has a hilarious and ambitious acronym WIN (We Invest in Nationhood) and is of the misconceived notion that all Guyanese are in dire straits and in need of his intervention. This man feels that being a philanthropist is all the qualification required to be the President of a country. A country is run by a democratically elected Government and its institutions, comprising the various sectors and Ministries which are run by qualified and competent persons, therefore, one must peruse the list of candidates to assess their suitability. This cursory perusal will unearth a band of persons who lack the competence to run any organisation and tainted with poor performance records where they were previously employed. Immediately, two supposedly ‘top notched’ candidates come to mind: Vishnu Panday and Dwarka Bahadur. Vishnu Panday held posts of General Manager and Agriculture Director with the Guyana Sugar Corporation and was removed due to insubordination and poor performance. Dwarka bahadur also held posts as General Manager and Technical Director and was likewise removed. I do wonder if these goodly gentlemen contracts were renewed by GUYSUCO, if they would have been on WIN’s list of candidates. Would they have cried ‘corruption’? Absolutely not! What can these people offer their country? A similar analysis can be done with all the others and it will reveal that their commitment is not for country but for self and all had their individual axe to grind with their former parties. Azruddin’s goal in forming his political party is to save his own skin from the grips of the OFAC sanctions, not country and people.
Today, all Guyanese are fully cognisant and history will attest to the fact that the PPP/C is the only multi-racial political party which has consistently delivered on its manifesto and never lied and deceived the public, and has always worked to uplift the lives of each and every Guyanese in every nook and cranny. No community is ever neglected. Let everyone take a glance around, development can be seen with just a cursory glance. The General Secretary, Dr Jagdeo made it clear that the peoples’ concerns are translated into the Government’s policies. The PPP/C is a party which can be trusted to deliver and all its years in Government have proven this fact.
In conclusion, the choice on September 1st is pellucid and unambiguous.
Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf
