Haven’t these facts vindicated the PPP/C’s occupation of office?

Mar 15, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

Isn’t it the highest form of corruption for the PNC to rig national elections from 1968 to 1985, a fact that Donald Isaacs, Humphrey Charles and others have a serious problem in confronting?

This is obvious in Isaacs’ letter in Kaieteur News of March 9th, 2009.

Caribbean leaders felt compelled to summon President Hoyte to Mustique, to question him about the 1985 elections, the biggest rigged elections, and also about the banning of essential foodstuffs, which was doing considerable harm to the population, especially children.

The PNC were also engaged in other forms of corruption, from the beginning when they acceded to office, so much so, that their own Finance Minister at the time, Peter D’Aguiar complained of it; he resigned his position and the United Force broke away from the coalition with the PNC.

Donald Isaacs and his partner in PNC propaganda sought to discredit the PPP governments of 1957 to 1964, and having failed to do so, embarked on an attempt to vilify the PPP/C Governments from 1992 and has sought to spread PNCR propaganda to mislead people, especially the youths.

The PNC had no Auditor-General’s Reports from 1982 to 1992 – 10 years – nobody knows what happened to the revenues for those years or what the expenditures were.

The allegations you are making are just that – allegations – continually being used as a political ploy.

We do know that the government has and continues to move vigorously to reduce and stamp out corruption within their limited resources. The Joint Services has been meeting with significant successes in breaking up criminal groups and their networks.

We have seen the vindication of the President’s actions in refusing to promote a GDF officer and recalling him from an overseas course, among other things.

As regards the 1997 elections, I wrote on this several times before expressing my views, which are that the PPP/C won them three times.

Once at the polls, twice by the findings of the CARICOM Audit Commission which found that only valid ballots were cast and that the results reflected the will of the people, and thirdly in the Court which could not upset the results of the elections but found that the use of Voters’ ID cards were unconstitutional, the use of which were agreed to by all the parliamentary parties, but the PNC nevertheless used this as part of their case. Putting Guyana first, the PPP/C accepted a reduced term and followed up by winning the next elections in 2001 and again in 2006.

John Da Silva

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