The PNC/APNU party has regrettably been making mistake after mistake!

Dear Editor,
The PNC/APNU party has regrettably been making mistake after mistake with serious negative consequences on the citizenry of Guyana. One of the most serious recent blunders is the refusal to allow The Carter Center to continue their observation of the elections.
Consequences: –
(i) The Carter Center has been assisting Guyana over the last 30 years to build democracy. To ban the Center from continuing to observe the elections would show Guyana to be an ungrateful and dangerous country to which the developed world would give no aid or lend international support eg Venezuelan controversy.
(ii) The Carter Center is a legally accredited observer of the elections and has the right to continue observing them. To ban the Center from doing their work is illegal and a piece of lawlessness which is seen and known both locally and internationally.
(iii) The US Ambassador has personally appealed to President Granger on behalf of the highest levels of the American Government to allow The Carter Center to return and continue to do the work for which they are accredited. To provoke the most powerful country on Earth is neither safe nor sensible as the Arab countries, China and India have learnt after chastisement.
(iv) If the final stages of the elections which The Carter Center should have observed turn out to be not credible or transparent, personal and national sanctions would be imposed as the US Government has long been warning.
(v) All the political and popular forces in Guyana except the small group in the PNC who are determined the seize the elections by hook or crook and who seem to have made President Granger their prisoner want the return of The Carter Center. President Granger has one last chance of freeing and redeeming himself by immediately lifting his ban on The Carter Center.
We would ask all the political and NGO forces in Guyana, in particular the PPP/C, to be relentless in calling upon President Granger to do the right thing, both in his own and in the national interest.

Yours sincerely,
Paul Validum
Ramlochan