Tension is high: two viruses are too much!

Dear Editor,
Editor, with each passing day, the crisis in Guyana continues to heighten. Our people face a situation of significantly depleted financial resources, without the authority of Parliament approvals, given that the National Assembly did not reach for approximately eighteen months. Parliament remains effectively dissolved since December 30, 2019, even as the global COVID pandemic presents health challenges with the uncertainty of a cure, and as GECOM continues the non-stop ‘hopscotch.’
As patently deadly as COVID-19 has proved to be, an equally deadly strain of our nation’s sustained pains has been the compromised performance of the Region Four Returning Officer, Mr Mingo; and the likes of Myers, Lowenfield, and the fragrant Vincent Alexander whose role he has allowed a continuous abusive misrepresentation in advancing Mr Granger’s agenda. Their cancer ensures a sustained spew of malignant materials and we have had the new scars being created in the same area before the old scar could heal.
Guyana has had an unleashing of the PNC/APNU/AFC’s cheating vengeance perpetrated by this cabal, who now seek to use their fraudulent executions in discrediting the elections after realising that the will of the people have been forcibly expressed through their votes. Instead of investigating the obvious and evidence-based compromise of Mr Mingo’s glaring fraud, new unsolicited and baseless claims outside of GECOM’s scope are being illegally treated in an attempt to vitiate the elections. This is although the ongoing recount shows otherwise and validates that the PPP/C won.
It is recalled that in her affidavit filed in the High Court, Retired Justice Claudette Singh reaffirmed her commitment as Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission to oversee a fair and transparent electoral process. Justice Singh, who was listed as a respondent in the case filed by APNU/AFC candidate Ulita Moore to block a recount, also stated that “once there is evidence that the electoral process was compromised, then to ensure impartiality, fairness, and compliance with the Constitution, the Commission is constitutionally mandated to intervene to ensure public confidence in the electoral process.”
Mingo’s recognised glaring actions that compromised the Region Four results were indeed the basis in this case for Justice Singh’s commitment to the High Court. To address the situation, she publicly committed to using the recount process in exercising her statutory duties to engender transparency and accountability and thereby to ensure impartiality and fairness.” It was subsequently made public that the full Commission, including the Chair, had agreed to the recount. There can be no other basis now for the final determination of the winner other than the recount results.
Without any doubt, Guyanese will register 2019 in history as a year when our Parliament did not function, and a de facto APNU/AFC cabal went on an unsolicited spending spree. They emptied the Treasury and then tried desperately to woo the Opposition PPP/C to return to Parliament, to get the National Assembly to ‘rubber stamp’ the billions in over-spending. The vibrant PPP/C Opposition had repeatedly warned against the bullish incredulous behaviour and rejected the sinister trap. As such, with no approved supplemental, the cabal fears that they will be held accountable.
Further, there was no parliamentary-approved budget for the fiscal year 2020. It is also public knowledge that the APNU/AFC cabal again spent massively in an attempt to keep themselves in office. The activity at the Ocean View Hotel started with the Government announcing that they were spending a mere one million dollars to do some preparation work for a COVID-19 holding centre. The APNU/AFC went on a spending spree; lavishly spending billions of dollars on that outfit which floods and will remain an improper place for any COVID-19 activity.
While it is known that the COVID-19 situation is caused by the existence of an indeed serious pandemic, coronavirus, this wicked caretaker Government is using the virus to blatantly discriminate against our people. The breaking up of the GAWU peaceful protest at Uitvlught is a serious infringement on workers’ rights. The denial of the reputable Carter Center and the IRI observers from coming to Guyana is an unpardonable sin by this Government.
The hauling of senior citizens who were picketing peacefully, in full compliance with the COVID-19 regulations, wearing their face masks while standing ten feet apart before the court to answer charges, is outright brutish harassment and will have to come to an end. Further, as the Granger cabal continues to use the COVID-19 Task Force to deny the additional counting stations, the ‘recount’ process is being slowed. However, the recount is confirming that the PPP’s Statements of Poll that they received from GECOM on the night of the Election on March 2 are true and correct.
Enough is enough! So let it be known that tens of thousands of Guyanese citizens are prepared to protest and reject any unfathomable position assumed at the end of this recount. COVID or not, two viruses are too much!

Sincerely,
Neil Kumar