Dookhoo should desist from calling for holiday on E-Day

Nov 24, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
In yesterday’s news, we see FITUG and Ramesh Dookhoo of the Private Sector Commission calling for Elections Day to be declared a holiday.
This is clearly an attempt by Dookhoo to deny the opposition parties access to transportation for their supporters to vote as happened 2006. It is informative that the Private Sector Commission and FITUG is calling for this holiday. FITUG is a known PPP supporting trade union organisation.
We are already in possession of information that several known contractors are making their trucks, which will have the name of the contractor obscured, available to transport the PPP/C voters on elections day – this is a violation of the Representation of the People’s Act since these trucks will not be paid for by the voters but by the party transporting them.
Did Dookhoo, in instigating for a public holiday on November 28th, consider who will transport the opposition voters who turn up to vote at one place where their name is supposed to be, but are then told that their name is elsewhere?
This happened in Region Three in the 2006 election where I was working for the PNCR, and I personally saw this. With no minibuses operating, many opposition party voters were deprived of their rights to exercise their franchise.
The opposition must object, in the strongest terms possible, to E-Day being declared a public holiday and we must do so quickly and decisively, and because this could be prejudicial to the opposition, Dookhoo must stay out of a matter lest he shows his bias further.
Because of this call by Dookhoo, along with a union organisation which is known to be aligned with the PPP/C, one is hard-pressed not to conclude that the Private Sector Commission is a PPP/C organisation.
Tony Vieira

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