Guyana almost a one-party state already

Dec 21, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

Hard Truths by GHK Lall

(Kaieteur News) – It’s time for congratulations. Warm, glistening. Like beer left in the sun too long. A garland of congratulations to Pres. Ali. His One Guyana production leaps off the screen. From propaganda to palpable pappy-show. The latter has more substance. Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo cracks a fat smile, just like he did when Charandas Persaud pulled the plug on the PNC and AFC. He was the smart one-a prophet. He fixed himself first, then fixed the wagon of the PNC and the AFC for good. What are friends for, if not to pull off these debilitating stunts. A steady stream of them in the months and years to come. Come to think of it, years may be going too far. Poor Terrence Campbell, he started out with an aircraft missing an engine, now a piece of a wing just got torn off. Some PNC (even WIN) reps cast their eyes around, and quickly concluded that the green on the PPP side is greener than PNC green and WIN blue. I see a one-party country.

What of the Guyanese people? Guyanese, who cares? That’s the center of my concern. A man promised them a cash grant, and now he twists himself into knots to get out of that knot. They will get one. Later. If for a cash grant, then the stage is set for bigger things. Somebody has their heart set on a third term. Not I. Bring a stack of Bibles, so I can swear. The same can’t be said of Dr. I. Ali, for he gave his word on a cash grant this year, and now look at his antics. Next year. Most unbecoming for a president. There will be a cash grant; he is just stringing the poor, vulnerable, and helpless people along; enjoying himself at their expense. Ever see a man go to a wake-house and breakout into a dance? Well, they are people like that in Guyana. Simply examine the verbal tangoes of local politicians. In a one-party country, pols can get away with those abuses.

Regarding Dr. Jagdeo, bibles aren’t his thing. He had made his third-term ambitions clear all the way to the CCJ. All those who crowed that that was the end of his presidential hopes were too early, too shortsighted. Delayed, not denied. There are the ambitious in the opposition; those waiting, timing their plunge. The issue will be who in the PPP wants to fight for the third term more? Ali or Jagdeo? I look at reality. Parliamentary is now a bigger rubberstamp, with Speaker Nadir having arranged some bigger smiley faces for his seal and stamp. The opposition is wracked by uncertainty, the murky, and the delicacy of neurosurgery. Where is it anyway? Who’s readying to cut navel string, make the move next? The PNC lost big, and among its ranks are those who calculate how to transform into a winner. WIN thought it won big, only to lose bigger. Drs. A and J hold all the cards. Come to my parlor said the spider to the fly. Less about poetry, all about money.

My earlier question hangs like a naked stranger in a cathedral: what will become of distressed Guyanese? Someone has to think of them, hold them dear, not see them as horse manure. That is, to be used, then discarded. If there are five to six political parties in today’s Guyana, and all these con games are still happening, then what horrors are in store when only one party has all the power, all the control, and almost a total share of the dirty tricks’ men and women in Guyana? Guyanese have had the privilege of seeing Dr. Jagdeo in action first, then when it was believed that things couldn’t be worse, until galloped Dr. Ali into town. Who that’s of sound mind, wishes to see more of them? Many in the PNC or WIN are not stupid, they can count just like everyone else. The pickings on the opposition side are drier than a dry. Why go through the motions, waste time, flog a lame horse?

I wish that all these smart fellows had been upfront with their supporters prior to the elections. Or come straight out for MIA and BJ at that time. Don’t make big promises to the people, then disown them like yesterday’s garbage. I hope that I don’t hear any nonsense about astute leadership and such. How many more? Guyanese fear the one-man Venezuelan show called Maduro. There are some of the them right here. One-man, one-party rule. Coming to a PPP social media theater soon.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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