Dear Editor,
Guyanese are familiar with the saying, “Time and Tide wait for None.” The ancient proverb originated from St. Marher’s 1225 work, “And te tide and te time… schal beon iblescet”. This phrase was later used around 1395 in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Prologue to the Clerk’s Tale.” President Dr. Irfaan Ali did not hesitate to announce the 2025 election date when it was officially due. Who ready, ready, as we say in Guyana. Like the proverbial scout’s motto, the PPP/C is “always ready” and leaves no room to be caught in any unguarded moment. President Irfaan Ali and the PPP/C always do the right thing. Guyanese are assured of that.
Unlike the APNU/AFC, the PPP/C did not stall for any right time to come for any favourable tide. The PNC’s “band of cabals” had to “pussyfoot” and drag their feet through mud, misery and many misgivings for some eighteen months before settling on a 2020 election date. Former President Granger and his team of political malingers refused to demit office after losing to the PPP/C vote of no-confidence motion in December 2018. His merry men and women included the likes of Trotman, Hughes and Williams who are all brilliant attorneys! History has shown that you cannot depend on the APNU nor the AFC to do anything legally right!
The PNC, AFC and all their lawful luminaries who are acclaimed experts and professionals in the proficiency of legal affairs, had more than their mouths shut when the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) slam-dunked their frivolous, vexatious and ludicrous arguments that 33 is not the absolute majority of 65. They ridiculously contended also that, former Member of Parliament Charandass Persaud’s ability to legally cast his dissenting vote on December 21, 2018 was not valid. Of course, the honourable CCJ chastised their rancorous case and revoked their venomous argument. How can you trust these parties to ever make any legitimate decisions?
“D” day was the sixth of the sixth month in the year 1944. Six days more to go before Guyana experiences “d” day the electorate will vote to decide, which of the six contesting parties will be their favorite to govern this nation. Is the Guyanese sixth sense perceiving a 2020 “déjà vu?” Perhaps with the advent of AI, the “Sixth Estate” may kick in to override the fourth and fifth estates, thereby avoiding Uncle Sam having to react with “Booths on the ground” to help quell any sanctimonious gangsters and their misguided miscreants. The PNC/AFC had to be ordered by the US Government to “Step aside” in 2020 and allow justice to prevail. Guyanese learnt a harsh lesson and know that APNU nor the AFC can never be on the right side of the law!
History has well documented the acidic and asinine ailments Guyana had to abide with, during the PNC/AFC exasperating era in 2020 when they squatted in office for some five unholy, unlawful and unacceptable months. After losing the free, fair and transparent 2nd March 2020 General and Regional Elections as declared by the international, regional and local observers, a putrid APNU/AFC care-taker Government headed by an obstinate President Granger, angered Guyana and the world at large when he refused to accede to the election recount totals and demit office. How can Guyanese accept such unrighteous people to run a Government?
On the very night of August 2nd 2020, a jubilating crowd of PNC and AFC supporters were celebrating their party’s assumed election victory when they were fooled by their party leaders that their party had won the election. They claimed that their Statements of Polls (SOP’s), collected and tabulated from each polling station from all the regions, supported their conclusion. On the contrary, the PPP/C also staked claim to winning the election based on their Statements of Polls. In the final analysis, the APNU/AFC was found to be lying to the Guyanese electorate and the world also. To date, the APNU nor the AFC cannot produce their SOP’s for anyone to check! Guyanese will not be deceived again and will not believe anything they say.
In Guyana we say, “Moon a run till day ketch am.” The ill-conceived propaganda and deliberate prevarications fabricated to fool the world that they, APNU/AFC, had won the election in 2020, was exposed by one of their own in June 2025. Samuel Sandy, Region Four Vice Chairman and former PNC/R Member confessed that, “In 2020, the APNU/AFC lost the election. I was the Operations Manager for the East Coast campaign. I was responsible for collecting all SOPs. And I did take it upon myself to record the scores of every SOP received. I took pictures. I kept them. I still have them. I went to the Ashmin’s Building. I listened to the numbers being tabulated. I looked at my numbers and thought to myself, where might this be going?” The APNU and AFC will always try to conceal the truth from the Guyanese public.
Old man time is ticking away as the tide comes in and goes out routinely. The PNC and AFC had thirty-three years to make the small man the real man. They failed miserably and only made their Executives live the good life. They wasted a lot of time to put this nation on the right foot and most Guyanese lost out big-time. Now that they are submerged at sea, they are hoping for some miracle to flow with the washing tide and rise again. But a red tsunami has afforded the PPP/C to white-wash any such hope! In their last five years of governance to this country, the PPP/C has outdone what the PNC and AFC have done in all their years in governance!
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall
