Rohee responds to Alexander

Jul 15, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

Commissioner Vincent Alexander wants the ‘thousands’ of Guyanese who died overseas to be ‘flagged’ but this is a euphemism for deleting persons from the voters’ list. How this is to be done in the absence of verifiable documentation of persons who died overseas only Alexander knows. In any event, a Revised List of Electors (RLE) has already been published and so the request to ‘flag’ deceased persons who have died overseas is now a moot issue. The subterfuge used here was advanced prior to the 2020 elections to prevent persons resident overseas from voting although their names appeared on the Official List of Electors (OLE). An attempt was tried again by Alexander and crew following the 2020 elections, this time in the context of a ‘internal review’ of those elections by GECOM.

Commissioner Alexander made a broad statement claiming that ‘Everyone has agreed that the incarcerated are entitled to vote.’ Who are in his catchall’s ‘everyone?’ is a mystery to me. Surely, he could not be referring to the seven-member Commission save and except the three opposition commissioners especially since no law exists for such an eventuality.

Commissioner Alexander claims that GECOM`s ‘state of preparedness’ should not be ‘limited to the execution of its work plan’ because in his view, that level of preparedness does not address what he described as ‘critical issues’, some of which be claims are ‘prerequisites for a free, fair and transparent elections, in Guyana`s prevailing circumstances.’

I wish to point out that if implementation of GECOM’S work plan for E-day ‘25 is the not the key and critical guideline at this point in time for GECOM to successfully conduct elections then what is? Mr. Alexander’s worrisomeness over GECOM’S ‘lack of preparedness, and disallowing prisoners to vote appears to be overrated and exaggerated.

In his letter Alexander boasts, ‘Unlike me, he (Rohee) does not enjoy the freedom of being objective about things GECOM.’ Here Alexander is being personal and judgmental. It would have served him much better had he heeded the Socratic advice; ‘Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.’

Let me make it easy for the Commissioner; put me wherever or describe however he wishes as; ‘contaminator of public information and things GECOM;’ ‘My ‘propensity for disinformation,’ unashamed,’ ‘being propagandistic;’ or denier. They are all labels that serve to satisfy a political end. Furthermore, as I have said before, GECOM is the battlefield not where I seek glory, but where I faithfully fulfill my oath.

Yours faithfully,
Clement J. Rohee

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