Dr. Hinds’ analysis leaves a lot to be desired

Oct 01, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Please permit me to respond to Dr. David Hinds’ Kaieteur News article, “The PPP gambled and lost.” The goodly professor cannot get his analysis straight and the editors of Kaieteur News should be chided for allowing him to write without fact checking.
As for the Local Government Election [LGE], Hinds writes, the PPP “had just won a resounding Local Government victory” and observed that APNU/AFC lost because “[t]heir constituency had just handed them a resounding rebuke by staying away from the polls at the LGE.” In an effort to make an apology for the current constitutional morass, he spins a tale that the PPP “knew the Voters’ List was tainted.” Dr. Hinds’ arguments are internally inconsistent.
In an effort to understand this claim that the Voters’ List is tainted, I have decided to comb the archives of Kaieteur News. On 08 January 2018, Kaieteur News carried an article in which the Honourable Minister Ronald Bulkan announced that LGE elections would be held by year end. On 25 September 2018, Kaieteur New carried another article, “Bulkan moves to have PPP’s LGE challenge thrown out.” Noteworthy, “The PPP had accused the government of gerrymandering LGE boundaries to undermine its stakes at the upcoming elections.” The PPP did not dispute the Voters’ List but accused the APNU/AFC of gerrymandering. Mr. Bulkan garnered a lot of good will because he was delivering LGE after one was not held in about 30 years. It is inconceivable that Mr. Bulkan would have gone ahead with a tainted Voters’ List that would embarrass his party. Sadly, the APNU/AFC Coalition did not do well at the polls. Dr. Hinds simplistically opines APNU/AFC supporters stayed away from the polls. The lesson for all political parties: While politics is conditioned by race, a segment of the Guyanese populace is going to vote for good governance. And quite conceivable, they will continue to flex their political muscle independent of the racial messaging.
Dr. Hinds’ analysis leaves a lot to be desired.

Sincerely,
Roger Ally
Fort Lauderdale

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