Is this the same Winston Brassington?

Dec 28, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Despite its less than stellar achievements in 2012, I applaud our 10th Parliament for using its voter-given dictator-busting, democracy-enhancing “majority of one” to further unmask and highlight the dictatorial tendencies of the discontented PPP minority government.
This minority government owes its existence to Forbes Burnham’s constitutionalized delusions of grandeur, and not to the will of the majority that voted in our last elections. I now encourage our Parliament to focus part of 2013 on transparentizing the opaque operations of the National Industrial Commercial Investment Limited (NICIL) and Atlantic Hotel Inc (AHI), which are both under the nominal control of Winston Brassington who should be hauled before Parliament and questioned about his relationship with a U.S.-based company that also has the word Atlantic as part of its name.
U.S. public records show a Winston Brassington as an owner/officer in a U.S.-registered company named Atlantic Merchants International (AMI). The company was registered in Pennsylvania on February 15, 1994, under file number 2566966, and also lists Jonathan Brassington (same name as brother of NICIL’s and AHI’s Winston), Joseph P. Chindemi, and Gary L. Weidner Jr as other owners/officers.
It should be noted that Atlantic Merchants International (AMI) is a fictitious name (allowed under Pennsylvania law when a company doesn’t want to use its real name), which clearly indicates that AMI was originally registered in another jurisdiction under a different name.
I make no conclusive claim about the identity of AMI’s Winston Brassington; however, AMI was registered in Pennsylvania, where Winston’s brother Jonathan Brassington lives. So our Parliament must move with haste on this matter, including ferreting out the names of NICIL and AHI vendors and other contractors. After all, our nation has a right to know whether or not Winston Brassington is a renegade.
Parliament’s efforts to force NICIL and AHI or any of our state institutions to be transparent and accountable will be strenuously opposed by the minority PPP government, which only believes in transparency and/or accountability just as long as it or an institution it controls is not being asked to be transparent and/or accountable.
But Parliament must not back down as the majority of Guyanese wants our nation to be governed by democratic principles, and any resistance from the PPP will only serve to highlight the truth that the PPP’s commitment to democracy is as deep as its desire to lose an election to the PNC or any other group in Guyana.
I wish our nation all the best that could happen in and for it in 2013.
Lionel Lowe

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