Hinds Blinds Himself – PPP is a uniting force

Oct 20, 2025 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister, Kwame McCoy’s in a timely manner, highlighted that “Guyana has moved on while David Hinds remains trapped by failed ideologies.”  (From his Facebook post) I see that the minister detailed that “Despite the massive and unforgivable failures of the PNC and its APNU remnants, David Hinds continues his tired obsession with racial survival politics, clinging to an ideology that is as old as it is dangerous, still trying to convince a modern Guyana that progress is a threat.”

Accurate and to the point! And I now add my little say.

For me, the likes of David Hinds are in the final stages of extinction. The 2025 Guyana Elections prove that most succinctly, with noticeable and unprecedented wins in a number of areas going for the incumbent People’s Progressive Party/Civic. Hinds and his ilk have disgusted the populace and once former allies are beginning to distance themselves from him and his kind of rhetoric and politics.

For example, I offer up Pt. Ubraj Narine’s Former Mayor’s diatribe that exposed Hinds utterance when back in February of this year, he used “Using derogatory terms like “lick ** Africans,” “house slaves,” and other inflammatory language to describe Afro-Guyanese who do not align with his political ideology.” The former, anti-PPP/C Pandit noted that “Hinds has crossed a line that no responsible leader or commentator should ever approach, (explaining that) When leaders stoop to such divisive rhetoric against their own community, it begs the question: What does this mean for other ethnic groups in our political party and country, especially Indo-Guyanese and other minorities, if such figures were to gain power?”

Well, thank God that Hinds is in rapid moribundity. His party, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) existing only in name, is bereft of leaders and supporters.

Explicating on this kind of mindset, Minister Kwame McCoy mentioned that “These (Hinds et all) ideological scavengers, parasitic in both thought and motive, continue to feed on resentment and decay, living off the toxins of division and turning race into a marketplace of manipulation, and in that pitiful theatre of deception Hinds still performs, mistaking noise for intellect and bitterness for bravery, unable to comprehend that Guyana has long outgrown the racial crutches upon which his political career limps.”

Galling indeed!

I wonder what is going on in the mind of Hinds. This is really the gist of what the minister and the erstwhile mayor want to know, and of course, I think I know the truth.

Editor, the pertinent issue, as spelled out by Ubraj and expounded on by McCoy, is that “If David Hinds can so easily belittle Afro-Guyanese who disagree with him, what reassurance do Indo-Guyanese and other ethnic groups have that they will be treated with respect and dignity under such leadership?” We all know that “We cannot afford to let this kind of rhetoric take root in our political culture. Guyana’s strength lies in its diversity and the shared aspirations of its people, regardless of race or political affiliation. Leaders must rise above petty insults and work toward fostering unity and understanding.”

I dare say that the last results from our elections, and what is now happening across the various councils in the many regions must be quite bitter for so many like Dr. David Hinds. He seems incapable of embracing reality. His delight was and is rooted in divisive politics. He has little regard for any group, and when his angst is raised, he stoops low and cusses out, even calling, as way back as in 2021 November, to “Undermine the enablers of the government, the businesses;(as) dem (East Indians) does come with big truckload… Dem from Black Bush, but dem come ah Plaisance Market fuh sell; dem ain’t from here.” Meaning that Afro Guyanese must not only oppose the PPP/C Government, but even quit associating with Indo Guyanese in their daily market life. What a thing to advocate?

O yes, as the minister noted, “He masquerades as a defender of ‘his people’ while exploiting their historical wounds for personal survival, his rhetoric thick with arrogance and self-importance, his mind imprisoned by the ghosts of the PNC/APNU and the ruins of a discredited movement that left Afro-Guyanese communities impoverished, fractured, and forgotten.”

To Hinds, I say that he must step out of his prison of darkness and hatred. His imprisonment is volitional. Many have crossed the racial divide. The racial demarcation has blurred and is rapidly disappearing. He cannot ‘pull that twine’ any more, and the quicker he accepts that national healing is here to stay, the better it is for him.

Yours truly,
Hargesh B. Singh

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• David Hinds, Hargesh B. Singh, Kwame McCoy, Letters, PPP

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