What happened…on E-Day 2025

Well, the big day has come and gone, and like most of you, Dear Readers, your Eyewitness got up early – before dayclean!! – to get a jump on voting early. Since Prezzie had declared the day a holiday, he figured once he did his sacred duty, he’d have the day to do as he pleased!! Which, of course, meant hanging out with the fellas to argue about the elections’ outcome. Not MIGHT but WHAT was GOING to be the outcome!! We Guyanese, we have our FIRM opinions about elections!!
Anyhow, your Eyewitness is mighty pleased that everything countrywide went smoothly – just like at his polling station!! When he showed up with the Missus, there were just six persons ahead of them since there were three other substations to handle his neighbourhood. There was a group under a small tent who asked our name and, checking their records, pointed to our particular station.
When your Eyewitness’s turn came to enter the sanctum, he was asked for his ID card – which he was gripping in his sweaty hand!! His registration number, ID and profession were called out for the party agents to check off – and also look him over to make sure he wasn’t a corpse who’d risen from the dead to vote!! Of the party agents, there were only three – with no WIN blue in sight!! Your Eyewitness now knew why they’d filed agents for the 2970 polling stations so late: there weren’t enough Scrapes who had the patience to sit in one spot for 12 hours! But he was pleased GECOM had called their bluff and accommodated them!!
He was passed on to the polling officer, who took the ID card and looked him over good! Her deputy gave him a ballot paper which she’d folded over twice and then stamped the back with a number also twice. He was then pointed to a rough-and-ready makeshift cubicle to put his X opposite the symbol of the party of his choice. Which he ain’t saying, thank you!! Between the polling officer and the cubicle was the “Ink Girl”, who directed him to hold the ballot in his left hand and place it into a ballot box labelled with the polling station number and a letter “C” for his substation. Then for him to dip his right index finger into the icky ink bottle!!
And that was it!! Your Eyewitness had exercised his franchise within five minutes!! He must compliment GECOM for the meticulous training and deployment of their staff to make the entire process so seamless and painless!!
But that was the same in 2020, no?? The PNC shitstorm broke the next day!! Hope we’re gonna be spared this time!!

…out west?
Your Eyewitness wonders whether those Sindicatos who fired at our GDF servicemen accompanying ballot boxes along our Cuyuni River border with Venezuela weren’t part of Mad Maduro’s plan to further rally Venezuelans around the flag. “Further” because we know there are those US warships and Marines steaming his way to take him out – against which he claims he’s rallied 4.5 million militias to take them on!!
Whatever it is, the firing on our soldiers should be a wake-up call to those Guyanese – including some in our Opposition – who’ve questioned President Ali’s quick and decisive approval of the US action. Mad Maduro represents a clear and present danger to our nation’s survival, and now isn’t the time to debate the US’s “real” motive for its action. Our position must be “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” – even though we know friendship can be transitory!
At a minimum, the US’s move buys us some time for President Ali’s plan to boost our forces to at least deter Mad Maduro!!

…to observers?
Your Eyewitness has been following the periodic interviews with the several international observer missions. He’s chuffed they concurred with him that, in general, voting proceeded quite smoothly. He’s noted the Opposition mischief-makers who’ve been sniping from under their rocks!