There are no whispers at PPP’s “bottom house” meetings

Dear Editor,
On February 2, I was perusing Facebook and came across a live video featuring Tabitha Sarabo-Halley and her husband, Clayon Halley, as they discussed topical issues on the programme titled “Late Night Gaff”. Twenty-seven minutes into the show I was aghast as Clayon Halley launched into a spiel of inflammatory speech, accusing the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) of racially profiling Afro-Guyanese at bottom house meetings.
Editor, this is furthest from the truth. Over the weekend, for example, I spent an entire day attending 15 ‘bottom house’ meetings and no such uttering was made by any of the speakers or attendees as Clayon Halley and Tabitha Sarabo-Halley are claiming.
It is well documented that senior leaders of the coalition are the ones involved in these whisper campaigns. James Bond was overheard in Campbellville and Leopold Street, Georgetown, telling the youths not to vote for the PPP/C and spewing derogatory and racist remarks. Further, Volda Lawrence, Basil Williams, Winston Jordan, et al have all been taped telling their supporters to gather in front of polling stations for work on the infamous ‘night-shift’.
The patently false narrative of what occupies the time of those in attendance at PPP/C meetings has been allowed to flourish as a whisper campaign for far too long. Now that the Halleys have made public pronouncements, it is time they (Halleys) provide the evidence to back these claims or be charged as provided for under the Representation of the People Act 2001.
The people in our country are all suffering from the five years of David Granger’s incompetent and corrupt Administration of our affairs. People of all ethnicities are united in a strong desire to exercise their franchise and return to a system of parliamentary democracy. People are concerned about the actions of GECOM and genuinely worried about attempts to rig the election. For the first time in many years, hunger is a problem for people in Guyana.
The ‘bottom house’ meetings are filled with questions about the PPP/C vision for the future of industries crippled by Granger and his cabal; bauxite, rice, sugar, oil, mining forestry, construction, manufacturing, and agriculture. People want to know when they will be able to afford to send their children to school again; when they can afford necessities and when jobs would be available for the thousand that were fired by APNU/AFC or now entering the job market. These are the concerns, there are no whispers; there are thousands of voices, stridently insistent on securing their rights as citizens and a better future for all Guyanese.
Editor, I have written to the ERC calling their attention to what I consider egregious breaches of the Representation of the People Act of 2001. I also urged that all right-thinking Guyanese reject the machinations of the APNU/AFC leaders to polarise our people just before the March 2 National and Regional Elections.

Respectfully,
Robin Singh