…PNC rigging
In democratic societies, the international norm that’s now accepted is that elections – for the people to choose their representatives in government – should be free, fair, and transparent. Riggings of elections, on the other hand, are surreptitious deeds done under cover to subvert the will of the people, by despots or would- be despots. But according to former PM of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, who was here to observe the elections on behalf of the OAS, David Granger’s PNC has turned all of that on its head. Golding says the PNC’s ongoing rigging of the March 2 elections is the “most transparent” he’s ever witnessed!!
What else could the poor fellow say?? He was there at the Ashmin’s Building when Mingo and his accomplices suddenly reversed gear and started using mysteriously generated spreadsheets to announce the tabulation of SOPs in the critical Reg 4 votes.
He was here in the room when Cummings summoned all international observers and threatened to withdraw their accreditations – for merely showing their indignation at the blatant fraud being perpetuated under their noses.
He was livid at the attempted bullyism of Cummings, and wasn’t bashful about expressing his sentiments. Cummings had to sheepishly admit she’d been ordered to make the threat.
Golding has now confirmed the source of his indignation: what did it say about his own integrity for the PNC to dare rig the elections in front of his eyes?!!? He’s obviously insulted they assume he’d fall into line with what the Caricom Prime Ministers has done for two decades – when they closed their eyes to Burnham’s PNC’s rigging between 1968 and 1985.
But with his stance, along with that of Owen Arthur, who headed the CariCom Observer Team, and Mia Mottley, the present Chair of Caricom, they’re clearly signalling that Caricom has moved on from those dark days.
As Lynch, Caricom Ambassador to the OAS, who followed Golding, said, Caricom cannot afford to allow one of its members – Guyana – to go rogue on democratic norms. He paraphrased our own Martin Carter: “all are involved, all are consumed”. And this is something that the dinosaurs in the PNC haven’t gotten into their thick skulls yet.
The Caribbean – including Guyana – is precariously perched on the cusp of a post-COVID disaster, which only the democratic world can extricate them from.
But the PNC is apoplectic at the Caricom Heads of Government’s refusal to cleave to the brotherhood of the skin: their propagandists can’t rail at the “racists” from the western countries who want to keep them “in chains”.
The least the PNC could’ve done was rig a bit less “transparently”!!
…Gobbledygook
How’d you defend the indefensible? Well, on their transparent ongoing rigging front, the PNC sent out one Lenno Craig, from their sidekick outfit the AFC, to field questions from the media outside the ACCC. Now, without being too snarky, there aren’t too many Rottweilers in our press corps, but maybe being thrown in the rain to huddle under some leaky tents have frayed their tempers! And maybe Craig was nervous?
Anyhow, as a sample of his inane assertions, he boasted about all the immigration records they had in their possession to show that many who voted had actually been abroad. Asked how he knew this, the fella actually said they had informants in every village and hamlet in Guyana!! Still hasn’t answered how he has the actual flight info etc, and said he can’t release them – like their SOPs. Secret info for an elections petition they’re preparing to file.
And why would they want to file a petition, since they insist they won? Never mind!! Best your Eyewitness draws the curtain here.
At least he did better than Patterson, whose mumblings folks are still trying to decipher!!
…Mingoing
Bruce Golding didn’t just speak in the abstract. He quoted numbers from the recount on some Reg 4 boxes to show precisely how Mingo had mangled the count by “inflating” the PNC’s votes.
