People succeed based on discipline

Sep 23, 2022 Letters

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Dear Editor,

I am forced to ask who is Nigel Hinds? His letter, “Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP) against African-Guyanese,” dated September 19, 2022, is not just mendacious; it is a hodgepodge of sentences, lacking veracity and cohesion. Therefore, what I will do is simply expound on a few issues, hoping to show him how silly he appears and the utter futility of whatever he is trying to achieve.

Nigel Hinds blurts out that “Racism in Guyana is getting worst, fuelled by the current governing administration’s Accelerated Racist Policies (ARP) … (and thus) The wealth of the nation is being allocated, divvied up, and Indianized to the detriment of African-Guyanese.” Right of the bat, it is troubling that this seemingly volatile man has no qualms about accusing the Government of ‘Indianizing’ the wealth of the nation. He needs to go on the ground, not only in Guyana, but elsewhere, even in Africa and African-governed nations and see what is the basic fact of life. Wherever people are and no matter who rules, people succeed based on discipline. For example, it is poignant to note that “Over 135 companies are owned and/or operated by Indians or Persons-of-Indian origin in Nigeria.”

I will not elaborate on this as it invokes anger and instigates violence. But I am sure Nigel has contortions to offer an excuse or attack to suite his predisposition.

Another thing, and this calls for no special research. It is that up to 1992, Guyana was dominated by a black Government. I add, that the PNC, under LFS Burnham and D. Hoyte, even though they rigged one election after the other, left ‘their people’ in a plight. In fact, I cannot remember a time in Guyana when so much ‘overt reaching’ out was ever done, where Afro Guyanese and their communities have been singled out.

For example, residents of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, are now possessing legal right to lands they occupy in the backlands. The same is happening in Melanie Damishana and Buxton. In fact, just recent Floyd Haynes rebuked the Cuffy250 forum organisers. What was he against? The topic: ‘Resisting the emerging apartheid state’. He was affronted and expressed his consternation, saying “… I am included on your list of speakers (but) I was not asked formally nor informally to be part of this programme, therefore please remove my name from this advertisement with immediate effect. His annoyance was emphatic, explaining that “Moreover, I completely reject the phrase ‘resisting the emerging apartheid state’ to describe conditions in Guyana. In my view, this statement is a disservice to all Guyanese, as such I wish to categorically dissociate myself from it. More importantly, I am a firm supporter of His Excellency, the President of Guyana and I am absolutely convinced that it is not part of the President’s agenda to create any disparity based on race.”

To me, this man is delusional, as he states that “It seems to me” that the PPP administration is intent on pushing Guyanese Blacks off the cliff that surrounds Guyana’s economic fields of wealth.” I mean it is the very opposite.

Let me get to this insanity now, where Nigel Hinds opines that, “The morose and gross misconduct by the current PPP administration has justified attempts by the Granger administration to disenfranchise the votes of PPP supporters in the 2020 General Elections.” He explains that “The efforts by Lowenfield and Mingo to undermine the majority vote is now defensible.” This kind of thinking speaks of serious mental issues. The tragedy of this kind of neuroses is that the victim sometimes becomes a believer, and carries along some simpletons. So much has been said and written about the ‘bare-faced’ attempts to ‘rig’ the 2020 elections that I need not say anymore. The Caribbean Court of Justice delivered the condemnation, and I will leave it at that.

A final thought please and I go to Freddie Kissoon’s “Fooling Afro-Guyanese again, and again and again,” dated Sept. 19, 2022. The KN columnist repeats that “… Afro-Guyanese know that the PNC has fooled them and is fooling them about the election results of March 2020. The clue to the PNC’s and their surrogates’ and the AFC’s credibility was the statements of poll (SOPS).” Freddie Kissoon reminds all that “The election went smoothly on Monday evening of March 2. By Tuesday morning, the PPP, PNC and all the international observer groups knew the results. The PNC that night knew they lost the election.” Yet, in the face of ‘daylight’ veracity and esteemed international observers, “… the PNC made the decision that it will claim that the election was tampered with but will not display, at anytime to anyone, its SOPS. It has not done so. It will never do so. It will keep fooling its supporters and because of the invisible SOPS of the PNC, its supporters know it is lying to them.”

Nigel Hinds is one who is leading gullible and defiant Afro Guyanese along this path of lying and denying. I mean what can be more cogent than what CARICOM recount team declared: “The team viewed much of the exercise of the phenomenon of ghost voting as well as voter impersonation as a fishing expedition… the net was cast extremely wide in the hope of at least making a small catch and at times the anticipated catch ended in slim pickings.”

What is my appeal? It is that honest and hardworking people, irrespective to race, religion and location, get on board. The Irfaan Ali led Government is committed to lifting the quality of life for everyone. Let what Floyd Haynes did to the organisers of the Cuffy250 organisers be a spring board.

Yours truly,

1. Singh 

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