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Guyana General Elections: Democratic Transition MUST be premised on the Rule of LAW

Press Release by Guyana Trades Union Congress The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) notes with deep concerns the tsunami of misinformation  permeating our social space and its impact on public opinion threatening to destabilise the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM’s) declaration of  which party/group will form the next government.  It also threatens Guyana’s democracy, credibility of our institutions of governance, the…

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Press Release by Guyana Trades Union Congress

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) notes with deep concerns the tsunami of misinformation  permeating our social space and its impact on public opinion threatening to destabilise the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM’s) declaration of  which party/group will form the next government.  It also threatens Guyana’s democracy, credibility of our institutions of governance, the rule of law and community relationships at a time when this small Caribbean nation’s oil rich potential is being exploited. It is not lost on us that the spread of a misinformation campaign can have far reaching and long lasting impact not only on Guyana but CARICOM, the Caribbean Community, and further afield.

Moved by this understanding GTUC seeks the support of Guyana and all concerned to have us navigate these challenges, by supporting the call to all persons, organisations and countries  with interest  in our well-being  to respect  the  internal mechanisms  embedded in our judicial system and the independent constitutional office of GECOM  whose chairperson Justice Claudette Singh  S.C has declared will “abide by all legal and procedural requirements to conclude its work.”

Please note:

GECOM– An independent constitutional body for conduction of National (General), Regional and Local Government elections in Guyana

  • The election process- The process, now sub judice, was halted due to an injunction moved by the Opposition People’s Progressive Party/C (PPP/C). At this stage the High Court having established its jurisdiction in favour of the Opposition is having its second sitting on Tuesday, 10thMarch, 2020.
  • GECOM from all public accounts has never refused to review queries made. What is evident is as it sought to implement administrative measures to address concerns a volatile environment was created obstructing its performance.
  • GECOM Chairperson Justice Singh following a subsequent demand from the Opposition to continue the process even as same was being adjudicated on, cited legal restraints as the matter was sub judice.
  • A misinformation campaign has started to condemn her learned silence and refusal to show contempt for the courts.

Government –President David Granger on many occasions declared  and continues to support the independence of GECOM allowing this institution to operate without interference from the government.

High-priced lobbying – vs- Representation of the People Act (Cap 1:03): These elections have been shaped by the Opposition paid Washington D.C, USA based powerful lobbying firm influencing international observers, citizens and other countries’ perceptions of the outcome of an elections not by GECOM and the Representation of the People Act, the sole constitutional institution/authority to administer the election under the said law.

GTUC recognises that whereas our laws may not address issues of this nature and it is the  right of any party to  use such means to advance its position  these should not come  at  the expense of allowing the process to work within the framework of the law i.e. Representation of the People Act.

Credibility of the Statements of Poll (SoPs) – The question of the credibility of the verification process has surfaced with several parties lending support to the issue as raised by the Opposition PPP/C. One presidential candidate, Ms. Phillis Jordan of the  People’s Republic Party (PRP), in a video circulating on social media  has since informed the nation that all of the small parties, none of which had its own SoPs in all the 10 Districts/Regions, were issued collated figures from an unnamed  major party. Hence the credibility of claims made by these parties in support of the major opposing force raises questions.

Derailing the GECOM process – GTUC is of the opinion that the carefully orchestrated misinformation and derailing of the GECOM process was also used to advance unrest by opposition supporters in a country that is known for its ethnic tensions during elections. These unrests when carefully analysed serves one major group only, and does not work for the good of the beguiled people.

Transition – Democratic transition from this phase to another should not be dictated to outside of the Representation of the People Act and GECOM’s constitutional right to so declare which party/group has won the Executive and apportion the seats in the National Assembly. GECOM is the authority to likewise state which party/group has won at the ten Regional Democratic Councils and apportion the seats on the Councils based on the votes received.

Historical Reference – Guyana situation is not dissimilar to that of the United States’ (U.S) 2000 presidential election which resulted in George W. Bush being declared President. In said election the U.S Supreme Court was asked to pronounce on the tabulation (hanging chads) between allotment of votes for candidates Bush and Alfred Gore.  The process of tabulation awaited the judicial outcome.  Guyana’s law allows for judicial review and resolution of our current challenges and we expect the U.S and other countries of the world to treat with our circumstance with no less respect than they treated with that of the U.S in 2000.

121 responses to “Guyana General Elections: Democratic Transition MUST be premised on the Rule of LAW”

  1. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    Hear what, any how you spin it, no conscientious African man would be campaign blogging for an infamously racist, lawless indian government to return to power and replace the african one
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    YOU SICK BIGOTED IDIOT .

    IF EXPOSING THE TRUTH MEANS CAMPAIGN BLOGGING SAYS A LOT ABOUT YOUR TWISTED MIND.

    HOWEVER YOU MAY HAVE THE FINAL WORDS.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    Some of the exchanges on this particular blog explains why neither side can say ‘come back’.

  3. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ Felicia Doughtz March 12, 2020 11:27 PM
    “@ Silly Woman & Donna,
    I truly hope neither of you are African, the pain to my psyche would be unbearable. Silky woman, who are “They”?? Do you not empathize with tha African population’s 23+28 year struggle against RACISM from the Hindu/Indian population? How disturbing it is to see african caribbean people extricate themselves from their people’s tumultuou struggle with a passport as the buffer?? Wait until the Hindu/Indian relentless racism becomes YOUR inescapable problem! It isn’t a guyanese problem, indian society because of their “Hindu” relgious & cultural foundation, are hateful & scornful of BLACK people!!! themselves included. It is a religiously cum culturally induced SICKNESS!! EVERY SINGLE SOCIETY Indians migrate to they seek to subversively subjugate the African population…psycholgically,socially, economically & politically. They are OBSESSED with proving their superiority over Africans in every sphere of life, to satisfy the racist,anti-artican Hindu impetus.Even when they convert to islam or christianity, they carry over the racism. Julius Malema, the south African EFF party leader said a year ago, that MOST INDIANS ARE RACIST!! The Indian population over there consistently vote FOR the racist Afrikaner Apartheid political party.”
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    Why don’t you look into your mirror image and ask yourself ‘WHY’?
    Why does that state of affairs appear so pervasively among blacks?

    Why do you think blacks were considered (and still among white supremacists) the “White Man’s Burden”?

    Why do you think blacks were considered the “White Man’s Burden”?

    Why do blacks allow themselves to be subjugated and exploited to such an extent that they lose all sense of self-respect and ability to enfranchise themselves, both economically and socially?

    Is it because black people are so greedy and intellectually superficial that they rely on other races to supply them with food, clothing and consumer trinkets?

    Even their simple naïve minds are still enslaved by religions belonging to other races.

    How could so-called educated blacks continue to pretend to believe in myths and fairy tales written and promoted by other ethnic groups as propaganda tools of jingoism?
    Why can’t they look to science for solutions to their challenges instead of a book of myths and blatant contradictions written scholars of an ethnic group instrumental in their physical and mental enslavement through the success of
    project called the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

    When blacks are able to liberate themselves from mental slavery then and only then would they be able to turn away from other people’s religions and look to the Source of their ebony skins for their own salvation; both spiritual and material.

    Blacks must stop depending on other groups to feed them and provide them with menial jobs.

    Aren’t T&T, Guyana and, most recently, Barbados glaring examples of this syndrome of dependency?

    They must stop spending their disposable incomes in ways to make other ethnic groups rich thereby enfranchising and energizing their disposition to ‘lord’ it over brainwashed blacks, socially and politically.

    Until then, blacks will continue to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for other ethnic groups.
    In other words, blacks will be mere consumers and labourers for those who control the means of production and distribution while they (the blacks) languish at the bottom of the social totem pole only, occasionally, excelling in mass sports and crass entertainment.

    The Internet is part of the technology which blacks should be making effective use and making improvement which can be instrumental in their mental liberation.

    What are they doing with it other than portraying themselves to mere consuming economic captives and mental clowns with their entertainingly Pentecostal antics in the adoration of a myth of a man?

    According to Dr. GP: ‘Cuss ma now!’

  4. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @Miller…No Contest!

  5. David Avatar
    David

    Press Statement
    Guyana Trades Union Congress
    13th March 2020

    Int’l contempt for CJ’s ruling and GECOM must not be countenanced

    The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is deeply concerned by the statement made by Mr. Alexander Matus, Deputy Head of the European Union (EU) Observers Mission, demanding that District 4 Returning Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) hand over legal documents (Statements of Poll) to him.

    We remind Mr. Matus that the Cooperative Republic of Guyana is a sovereign nation and the relationship between Guyana and the EU is one governed by diplomatic engagement under the Geneva Conventions. GECOM is an autonomous constitutional body, solely responsible for General, Regional and Local elections in Guyana.

    On 11th March 2020 the High Court of Guyana ruled reinforcing GECOM’s independence and reminded all that observers, domestic and international, have no statutory right over GECOM as an entity and any of its officers with particular reference to the Returning Officer who is not answerable to forces external to GECOM.

    The boldness of Mr. Matus’ contempt for the Constitution and Laws of Guyana, the ruling of the High Court, and People of Guyana places his goodwill and agenda into question. It raises questions re the continued role and ability of certain international organisation/countries or more particularly their representatives entrusted to observe and report on the Guyana elections into question.

    Mr. Matus and others who have communicated with similar impropriety know their limitations in a sovereign nation forbids him / them interfering, much less dictating to and demanding from our institutions of governance. Being an invited observer and having an interest in our electoral processes does not provide him or any other additional privileges to interfere.

    Opportunity is taken to bring to the attention of Assistant Secretary (ag) for U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mr. Michael Kozak that the Guyana elections has not yet been pronounced on by GECOM which is the statutory body vested with the authority to so do.

    Guyanese are mindful that the Western World has had and in some instances are undergoing similar challenges which were resolved with due process and without external interference. As a small developing sovereign nation, we ask for and are entitled to no less. We also ask for some respect be accorded to our CARICOM relationship since said body has demonstrated a respectful oversight interest.

  6. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Felicia Doughtz March 13, 2020 2:27 AM

    @ Donna 9:12 p.m
    Your ignorance of the Guyanese reality is heartbreaking.The election to the african guyanese, is the difference between re-enslavement & Freedom…It is not a game! The PPP/c uses state power to turn African Guyanese into untouchables. Since 1992 until 2015, African Guyanese were under constant siege by indian Guyanese because of their race. There is not perfect sunrise either way donna…If the PPP/c loses legitamately there will be unrest, if they get back in, there will be unrest!!
    Dr. Kean Gibson Books
    (1)The Cycle Of Racial Oppression in Guyana
    (2)Hinduism & Violence in Guyana

    Felicia Doughtz March 12, 2020 11:27 PM
    “@ Silly Woman & Donna,

    I truly hope neither of you are African, the pain to my psyche would be unbearable.

    https://youtu.be/4hj1iWqoYEc

    I really don’t know what you’re on about. Calm yourself and read what I said above. I said you will have to make a choice – to steal an election and cause a bloody race war where no-one will be the victor or take your chances with the duly elected Indian government and continue the gradual struggle using peaceful means. Both bad options. The first is quicker but seldom ends well. The second is slower, much slower but usually more fruitful in the end. You are between a rock and a hard place. You will have to pick your place. Which place would be harder?

    Me, I am more patient. I don’t wish for magic wands. black people need to do more than moan and groan and be violent. Black people need to work on freeing their minds.and the rest will follow.

  7. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Donna,
    My GOOODDD!, What violence are you talking about??? Where are you hearing or seeing African advocacy for violence??? Why do you keep insinuating that African guyanese are violent+fraudulent & lost the election, while the indian Guyanese are innocent/earnest & won the election?? You are SICK!! Do you even read your bias before you type? There has been a race war against african guyanese since the 60’s, but became OFFICIALLY STATE SANCTIONED in 1992…it never ended!! The only difference was the last 5 years of relative HOPE,DIGNITY & SELF RESPECT, a removal of the BOOT from their necks!! You imply peace under the same ideologically shamelessly racist, corrupt PPP/c gov’t that ordered BLOODY extra judicial murders of 400+ african guyanese, as well as imprisoning african guyanese political opponents/ activists ??? Have you seen the news of african guyanese children being assaulted on their schoolbus? This is how they behave unprovoked & out of power… What do you think happens when they get IN power??? Peace???
    Donna, you seem to like posting YouTube videos,why don’t you post THIS video lecture from YouTube “Dr. Velu Annamalai” (full version 1:40:56 @ Vincent Wortmann channel) there is an introduction by a Guyanese man and ends @ 5:00 minute mark. Come on Donna…POST!

  8. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    PM , Mottley as Head of CARICOM, must be supported for going to Guyana, in that capacity, to look into the election/voting issues.

  9. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    Donna has stated that
    (1) The indian government is the duly elected one (how does she know this?)
    (2) Africans could only have won if they stole or steal the election
    (3) A Bloody race-war will ensue IF indian government does not get in office (how does she know this??)
    (4) Africans should be peaceful & slow in their struggle against the Hindu/ Indian Caste(Apartheid) system

  10. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    OAS observer mission dismayed at behaviour of Region Four Returning Officer
    -sees cause for grave suspicion

    The OAS Electoral Observation Mission in Guyana, led by the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding, yesterday said that it was dismayed that in spite of the ruling of the High Court on March 11, the Guyana Elections Commission was not able to move ahead yesterday, with the tabulation of the results for Region 4.

    “This provision stipulates that the Returning Officer shall, in the presence of the persons legally entitled to attend, which includes the duly appointed candidates and counting agents, add up the votes for each party list in accordance with the Statements of Poll. Aside from the ballots themselves, the Statement of Poll is the authentic record of the number of votes cast for each party list.

    “The refusal of the Returning Officer to demonstrate that the numbers being added up are the numbers that appear on the Statements of Poll lacks transparency and is cause for grave suspicion. Any declaration issued on this basis is bound to be questioned and the Mission would be obliged to so advise the Secretary General”.

    https://www.stabroeknews.com/2020/03/13/news/guyana/oas-observer-mission-dismayed-at-behaviour-of-region-four-returning-officer/

  11. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    STRANGE THAT BRUCE GOLDING FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA AND NO STRANGER TO NATIONAL ELECTIONS ALSO A BLACK MAN / AN ELECTION OBSERVER ON THE GROUND CAN SEE CLEARLY THAT ELECTION FRAUD IS BEING PERPETUATED.

    IT IS ALL ABOUT THE TRUTH.

  12. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    I am calling on all Guyanese of Amerindian heritage ,to rise up and over throw and expel the two grasping and greedy interlopers.

  13. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Baje March 13, 2020 12:34 PM

    “OAS observer mission dismayed at behaviour of Region Four Returning Officer
    -sees cause for grave suspicion”

    America has no authority to tell any country in this part of the world anything.. Having overthrown or rigged countless elections in this hemisphere and else where. Find some other country to cite. Do not include the OAS. CARICOM couldn’t even stop Denzil Douglas from rigging the elections.

  14. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Baje March 13, 2020 12:39 PM
    Do not cite Bruce Golding as an example. Is this the same Golding who had to step down because of his association with the cocaine smuggler? The outcome of that little episode was a shoot out in Jamaica?

    The selections you have cited have no moral authority what so ever.

  15. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    The Question has not bee IF fraud is being Perpetrated, but by WHOM???

  16. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    @ robertlucas

    YOU TOO SEEM TO HAVE A TWISTED MIND PAINTING EVERYONE WHO DISAGREE AS BEING SILLY OR MALIGNMENT.

    IN THE PAST MANY SOURCES ALL WITH SAME CONCLUSION.

    YOUR BIRTHLAND GUYANA IS WORSE THAN A FAILED STATE IT SEEMS TO THINK THAT EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THINGS THROUGH THEIR JAUNDICED EYES.

    HOWEVER I BELIEVE IN CALLING A SPADE A SPADE WHETHER HAPPENING IN GT, BIM, UK, USA OR ELSEWHERE.

    I AM NOT DRAWN INTO SIDE ARGUMENTS WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DIRECT FRAUD AND MANIPULATION OF VOTES TOTALS IN CURRENT GUYANA ELECTIONS,

  17. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Robert Lucas,
    Ohhh, so African guyanese are “greedy” and should be “thrown out” after centuries of enslavement & abuse…Eh??? Weren’t the native guyanese “greedy” when they hunted african escapees to the interior during the enslavement period for money????
    Rsearch the OAS leadership & employment practices. How is it that there appears to be an over representation of indian caribbeans in leadership in that organization as opposed to africans who far outnumber them in the caribbean?? An indian guyanese is CHAIR ofits permanent council…it is NOT impartial. As soon as Kamla got into office in 2010, the indian journalist, shelly Dass, who fluff interviewed her on the eve of the election, coincidentally,got hired soon after at the OAS to work for another indian Albert Ramdhin (surinamese), whose indian wife is Trinidadian, is assisstant secretary general of OAS.There is no absence of bias/conflicts of interest with OAS! Wake up! Jokers!

  18. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    BTW, during the kamla/pp/unc reign in Trinidad between 2010-2015, early on it was uncovered by journalists, that the then gov’t was PAYING bloggers (africans as well…Some were interviewed), to join conversstions and be pro kamla on social media!

  19. Baje Avatar
    Baje

    PLEASE NOTE THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF GUYANA IS A BLACK WOMAN.

    AT LEAST THERE IS SOMEONE WITH INTEGRITY.

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    BREAKING NEWS! CJ says Mingo must present Statements of Poll 

    Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire today admonished the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and its Returning Officer for the issues which followed her ruling.

    The CJ said that her ruling was very clear.

    She further said that, in continuing, the Returning Officer must present the Statements of Poll for the observers and duly appointed candidates to see clearly.

    Attorney-at-law for GECOM, Neil Boston, told the Chief Justice that GECOM will comply with her instruction.

    https://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2020/03/13/breaking-news-cj-says-mingo-must-present-statements-of-poll/

  20. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    What will she do if he does not? He is the only person who can say who won? She cannot do one thing. The side with guns will call the shots.
    What is this news about the Barbados Cricket having to be given police protection and there is uncertainty about the game be played at all.

  21. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Felicia Doughtz March 13, 2020 2:38 PM

    It was one step towards the expulsion of all the interlopers. According to Mao, a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. It had to start some where could have been the East Indians if a price had been offered My father’s people were not discriminatory on the grounds of color.

  22. robert lucas Avatar
    robert lucas

    @ Baje March 13, 2020 2:17 PM

    “YOU TOO SEEM TO HAVE A TWISTED MIND PAINTING EVERYONE WHO DISAGREE AS BEING SILLY OR MALIGNMENT.”

    I haven’t disagreed with any one .All I did was state that Guyanese of Amerindian extraction should rise up and expel the grasping and greedy interlopers. I also pointed out that certain countries do not have the moral authority to pass judgement on other countries. Pray tell me, where there is any mention of having a disagreement I hereby call on all Guyanese of Amerindian heritage in the words of the late Patrick Emannuel and Beryl McBurnie : “TO ARMS TO ARMS’

  23. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Robert Lucas,
    Arie Boomert, an expert on Native American history in Trinidad, revealed that Africans were fighting ALONGSIDE the natives in Trinidad during the 1630’s against the Spanish Colonials. Also robert, i’m not interested in shouldda-couldda-wouldda…It was African-Guyanese the Natve Americans of Guyana assisted in oppressing, by hunting them for the colonizers…INDIANS WERE NEVER ENSLAVED OR HUNTED because there was nothing to escape from. There is no such thing as an Amer-Indian! “Indian” is a nationality from the sub-continent (south asia). The NATIVE PEOPLES of Guyana are Natives Of ‘The Americas’ (South), and are comprised of different ethnicities/peoples, of which, NONE are referred to among themselves as ‘Indian’ it is disrespectful to them to call them Indians as colombus & other colonialists ignorantly titled them!

  24. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Felicia DoughtzMarch 13, 2020 12:03 PM

    @ Donna,
    My GOOODDD!, What violence are you talking about??? Where are you hearing or seeing African advocacy for violence??? Why do you keep insinuating that African guyanese are violent+fraudulent & lost the election, while the indian Guyanese are innocent/earnest & won the election?? You are SICK!!
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    You are the one frothing at the mouth and I am the one who is sick????????????

    Tell me where did I state that the Indians are innocent? Their behaviour has been appalling! What I am saying is that you can expect more of the same if ya tief the election. Pick ya poison! The cold war or the hot one? Good luck!

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    Felicia Doughtz March 13, 2020 12:15 PM

    Donna has stated that
    (1) The indian government is the duly elected one (how does she know this?)

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    The lack of transparency, the refusal to follow process, the results of the other regions all point to it.

    PS. When I spoke of blacks being violent I meant blacks worldwide who give up when the going gets tough, turn their anger inward and kill each other at alarming rates. Self-destruction.

  25. Dullard Avatar
    Dullard

    @ Felicia Doughtz

    Why do you bother? It is comments like the below that betray a disconcerting naïveté and lack of understanding.

    “ PS. When I spoke of blacks being violent I meant blacks worldwide who give up when the going gets tough, turn their anger inward and kill each other at alarming rates. Self-destruction.”

    How do Blacks give up? Blacks kill each other at alarming rates? Based on what metric? Compared to the Chinese? Or those on the Indian sub- continent? Or those that had a 100 years war and fought 2 world wars?

    Gimme a break…

  26. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    I am speaking, oh dullard, of those societies that are not at war, for instance Barbados. I am speaking of countries where, although the system is very skewed towards the white population, it is still possible to live and advance if one puts in the effort. But here we have bundle of stupid black boys who would refuse to plant even an okra tree, pea tree or lime tree but prefer instead to sell drugs and shoot each other dead. And for whose benefit, I wonder! Probably not another black man! Who’s making the real money while escaping prison and death? Who is calling the SHOTS?

  27. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Dullard, i hear you. I bother because of strategy. What african caribbean you know says ” Pick ‘YA’ poison”??? Racism in the caribbean has taken a huge toll on africans, especially the youth! Indians, syrians,whites ,chinese etc …The straight hairs, have been, over the past 2-3 decades, shut out africans & their narratives from the media, thereby reducing africans to child-like slaves forever waiting on them to define reality for us via propaganda in the media! They drown out & wear out the psyche of africans with their assaults until they alone reman… Enough!!

  28. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    When I speak of blacks giving up I can speak of thirteen year old boys who tell their teachers not to bother with them because she knows what they are going to do when they leave school. Speak to the teachers. They have given up. The education system may have failed them but even when a teacher tries to help them they refuse the help. They have chosen their path. They are angry with the world for not being fair. But the world has never been and will never be fair. Progress has been made. We must continue the struggle.

  29. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    They do what the foolish blacks allow them to do. Black people need to fix their psyche until it is impervious to their attacks. Mine is already impervious. So is my son’s.

  30. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/03/13/police-probe-shooting-9/

    Here we go again! But whose the boss???????

  31. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Unable to contribute

  32. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    correction – Who’s the boss?

  33. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    FYI, “pick ya poison” is an expression that means that your choice will be bad no matter what. Or are you now suggesting that I am not Afro-Caribbean because i used that term?

    You are truly paranoid if you are. Seek help!

  34. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Felicia Doughtz March 13, 2020 1:32 AM “Silly Woman= Dumb B****”

    Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, a BLACK MAN born 20 February 1923, died 6 August 1985, was a Guyanese political leader and leader of Guyana from 1964 until his death, as the first PRIME MINISTER from 1964 to 1980 and as second PRESIDENT from 1980 to 1985.

    Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte, a BLACK MAN born 9 March 1929, died 22 December 2002 was a Guyanese politician. He served as PRIME MINISTER of Guyana from 1984 to 1985 and PRESIDENT of Guyana from 1985 until 1992.

    Mr. Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds, a BLACK MAN born 27 December 1943 is a Guyanese politician who was PRIME MINISTER of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015. He also briefly served as PRESIDENT of Guyana in 1997.

    Mr. Hamilton Green, a BLACK MAN, born 9 November 1934 is Guyanese politician and once PRIME MINISTER of Guyana. Green is an active trade unionist and Muslim by religion, and active in politics since 1961.He was a member of People’s National Congress and chosen as one of the five Vice Presidents in the cabinet of Forbes Burnham in October 1980. He also served as the PRIME MINISTER of Guyana from 6 August 1985 to 9 October 1992.

    Mr. Ptolemy Alexander Reid, a BLACK MAN born May 8, 1918 in Dartmouth, British Guiana, died September 2, 2003 was a Guyanese veterinarian and politician who served as PRIME MINISTER of Guyana from 1980 to 1984.

    Burnham, 16 years as Prime Minister
    Hoyte 1 year as Prime Minister
    Hinds, approximately 23 years as Prime Minister
    Green, 7 years as Prime Minister
    Reid, 4 years as Prime Minister

    So Guyana has had BLACK MEN as Prime Ministers for 51 years between 1964 and 2015

    Burnham, 5 years as President
    Hoyte, 7 years as President
    Hinds had a brief, less that one year term as President

    So Guyana has had BLACK MEN as President for 12+ years since 1980.

    It seems to me that BLACK Guyanese MEN have been doing a pretty good job in holding onto political power since the mid-60’s, and no doubt doing good for the black Guyanese people, and ALL Guyanese people.

    If not, why not?

  35. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Donna,
    I wasn’t questioning the meaning, but rather the backround of somone who expresses themselves in that vernacular. The red flag was “ya ” not “yuh”. Also, referring to children as stupid?? really donna?? black boys at school are stupid?? What is your backround? Ethnicity, nationality, class… Saying that male children whoa are african are stupid & don’t want to learn donna? As a justification for racism against them & their ethnic group? YUH damn right i’m foaming at the mouth, but it is you who are rabidly racist!

  36. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Silly Woman,

    Top shot! Better than Alvin Kallicharran, Clive Lloyd, Roy Fredericks or Rohan Kanhai! De ball loss way!

    False narratives abound. Who it was kill Walter Rodney again? Had to be Jagan!

    More foam! More foam!

    false Narrator,

    Spare me your false indignation! i don’t care about being politically correct. Only correct. I speak of what i know. Many of those black boys running around killing each other are stupid because somebody else reaps the rewards. They reap jail and burial plots! How much more stupid can you get? And many of them make these choices while still at school. I remember being thirteen. Old enough to think straight.

    I remember teaching two sixteen year old cousins who tried to terrorise me when all I was trying to do was teach them. Both of them had the capacity to learn but they chose their path from then. One became a drug dealer and is dead and the other is in Dodds for murder. I warned them that that’s where they would end up if they did not change their ways.

    But…. I have not used this as justification for racism. I simply say that we often don’t do ourselves any favours. We allow the other races to use us even unto death. And they laughing at we all the way to the bank while we holding we belly on the way to yet another funeral.

    I will call a stupid spade a stupid spade!

    More foam! More foam!

  37. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Fancy YASELF a detective do YA? Piss poor one!

  38. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    Donna I bin around town long, long. From as long ago as when Felicia Doughtz’ favourite party would instruct the consular officials in the great white north to put the opposition votes in the officials’ fireplace and burn them.

    Guyanese politics has been NASTY and DISHONEST for DECADES..

    Felicia Doughtz tink I born yesterday.

  39. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Donna March 13, 2020 9:54 PM. “Who it was kill Walter Rodney again? Had to be Jagan!”

    Dr. Walter Rodney, 38, a black Guyanese scholar was murdered on 13 June 1980.

    Mr. Linden Forbes Burnham was Prime Minister of Guyana from 14 December 1964 to 6 October 1980, so Burnham was Prime Minister on the day that Rodney died.

    Nobody has yet been tried nor convicted for the murder of the BLACK MAN Dr. Rodney.

    i bin around town long, long, long.

    I remember the day Dr Rodney died like it was yesterday.

    Do not buy into the hateful narrative of Felicia Doughtz. Both Burnham and Jagan were originally members of the PPP. They had a falling out, you know the saying ’bout “two boar rats can’t live in one hole”

    Since then the political class in Guyana has worked to the disadvantage of the Black Guyanese and the Indo Guyanese people, you know the saying “when two elephants fight, the grass gets hurt.”

    The elephants are the political parties/the political class.

    The grass is the down trodden poor people of Guyana. Poor black people, and poor indic people.

  40. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Siklkly Woman,

    I too remember when Walter Rodney died. It all pointed to Burnham. I also know the political history. of Burnham and Jagan. I do not need to be told not to buy in to her hateful narrative. She is just seething with rage and foaming at the mouth. I do not follow people who foam at the mouth.

  41. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Typos!

  42. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    https://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/244369/shooting-checker-hall

    But who calling de SHOTS??????

  43. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    https://barbadostoday.bb/2020/03/14/guyanese-folk-protest-consulate-over-election-impasse/

    “Whether or not you support the results of an election democracy is about whoever wins gets into office.

    “We are calling for transparent and credible elections in Guyana.”

    The results of the regional and general elections are disputed, with the populous Region 4’s votes being at the centre of the quarrel between the island’s main parties and ethnic groups

    On Wednesday, Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire ruled that the declaration made by the returning office in Region 4 was unlawful and in breach of the Representation of the People Act.

    Since the elections there have been reports of some violence.

    Prime Minister Mottley, at the helm of a quintet of CARICOM leaders went to the South American member state to appeal to the leaders of the political parties at the root of the fracas for a peaceful resolution.

    Hanuman told Barbados TODAY he was “very pleased” that Mottley has done this.

    He said: “The governing party seems obsessed with power and as such they are holding on to power and in effect having elections rigged.

    “They are trying to manipulate the tabulation. The international community and CARICOM have been calling for a transparent process and so far they have not succeeded in getting that.”

    Insisting that he was not a supporter of any of the political parties in Guyana, Hanuman said he was simply hoping his approximately two-hour peaceful protest would send a signal that the Guyanese diaspora was interested in there being a fair and transparent process.

    The small group gathered on an open lot in front of a mechanic’s shop just across the street from the Guyana Consulate with a Guyanese flag and some placards in hand.

    Describing his fellow Guyanese as “pawns in a bigger game”, he accused “colonialists” of “milking the cow” while the Guyanese fight over the proverbial cow.

    As for the Guyanese population in Barbados, Hanuman said: “Unfortunately, just like in Guyana, there is a racial division and so the people who support the government are making all kinds of excuses to justify the government staying in power, whereas the people who support the opposition are obviously taking a different position.”

    Hanuman said he was concerned that Guyana’s oil wealth could be “frittered away with al the silliness that is going on there right now”.

    Holding a picture of the murdered political activist and Pan-Africanist Walter Rodney, Hanuman said perhaps he was “the only political individual with integrity and principle in Guyana”.

    He declared: “There needs to be a new grouping. It is a pity that there are no more Walter Rodneys in Guyana. Ideally I would love for there to be a Walter Rodney, but unfortunately there isn’t.” He said he believed Guyana could received sanctions if the situation was not resolved soon

  44. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    Silly Woman & Donna are either not africans, or worse…. Negro Bedwenches!! Prostituting themselves for acceptance from racists in other groups. Does “Silly Woman” even know what hate is??? why not quote a hateful post of mine?? I can quote hate from negro bedwench donna ” stupid black boys…don’t want to learn…always killing…” – Donna. …Now THAT’S hateful!!…of innocent, impressionable children!! but according to Donna, black boys AREN’T boys,… they’re killers!! does that sound like the narrative of a sound african mind, or a racist non-african troll???
    And Donna…Please…you are not some heroine, that is bravely fighting ‘political correctness’… You HATE African children (especially boys)….
    YOU ARE T-R-A-S-H!

  45. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @ Silly Womam,
    I believe you have been ’round long,long,long… but not ‘tong’… i believe you’ve been round indian racist propagandists’ lap bouncing up and down!! The fake outrage for walter rodney’s death is an old PPP/c indian narrative, that bemoans this one black man’s death because it implicates political opponent Burnham & Rodney, fought against Burnham & was slways used as as political tool. However, have you seen the latest revelations about rodney’s final days??? Rodney’s former friend & anti-burnham political activist ally, testified that Walter Rodney came to him to help construct a ‘device’ to use on burnham’s admin. The witness testified that Walter Rodney was planning to use that device. This means that he either ended himself in error, or his intended victims made him a victim of his own device! This revelation completely flips the propagandists’ claim that Burnham ended Rodney because he was a outspoken critic!
    Let’s cut all the crap… I support apnu+pnc to retain office, and Donna + Silly Woman + Tron-esh + Baje-singh support PPP/c.
    At least i’m up front & earnest in my deliberations.

  46. GP Avatar
    GP

    THE WOMEN RANTING AND RAVING ON BU

    AND THE BAJAN PRIME WICKER GONE DOWN TO GET INVOLVED IN GUYANESE POILTICS

    HE CANT RUN BARBADOS BUT HE GONE TO MEDDLE IN GUYANESE POILTICS

    THE MAN GOT DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR DENNNNNN

  47. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    I am an Afro Bajan. I am nobody’s bed wench. I don’t know any Guyanese ‘Indians” I don’t even know any Guyanese “Africans” although I have know some in the past and I have had very good social and professional relationships with them all. I have never ever been to Guyana and I have absolutely no desire to do so. I have been accused before of being a prostitute. When women speak up there is always somebody, unfortunately that somebody is too often also a woman ready to accuse them of prostitution. But I have NEVER had sex with anybody for money, money’s worth, status, job nor anything like that. I operate by MERIT. I have always earned my own living by the ‘sweat” of my brow and my brain. I now enjoy a pension that is adequate to meet my needs. I have never been a coveted other people’s “stuff” and I have no need to do so now.

    Because I speak the non-political truth and disagree with you does NOT make me a prostitute.

    I repeat. Guyana’s politics has been nasty and dishonest from the time I was a child. I did not start yesterday nor last week nor last year. Very likely you were born and found the nastiness and you have come to believe that it was always so and that it must remain so. it does not have to remain so.

    During Barbados’ last election some of Barbados’ DLP supporters came on Barbados Underground and cursed and insulted bloggers who disagree with them. The DLP’s leadership did so also at the closing meeting at our decripit national stadium. That was a very, very, foolish thing to do especially as they cursed the then opposition party leader in her womanhood, seemingly forgetting that most of the electorate are female and would likely take great offense at the cursing. After all to curse somebody because they are female or male, or “Indian” or “African” is foolish because none of us get to choose our gender or our race. chooses their gender or their race. I warned them not to curse the electorate, the same electorate which they expected to vote for their favourite party. They did not listen. I am not Guyanese, I cannot vote in Guyana’s elections, I have no desire to vote in Guyana’s elections, yet you find it necessary to curse me. I can therefore imagine how you curse Guyanese who disagree with you, and then you act surprised that they want nothing to do with you or your party?

    Let me remind you that political parties can catch more votes with the sweetness of honey than with the acidity of vinegar.

    NEVER EVER curse the people who might vote for you. Try using persuasion instead.

    I have nothing else to say to you, except that I wish you safety, good health, happiness and a long and productive life.

    God bless.

  48. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @Felicia Doughtz March 14, 2020 8:45 AM “Silly Woman..support PPP/c.”

    Nope.

    I support whoever wins an honest election.

    in Barbados I have voted for the DLP just about as many times as I have voted for the DLP and I intend to continue my usual practice.

    Never a yard fowl.

    Will NEVER be a yard fowl.

    Yard fowl=noun (Barbados) [derogatory term] A political lackey; a person who makes himself or herself available as a party hack in return for political favours on which his or her livelihood depends.
    Source: Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage. Richard Allsopp. I believe that the late Dr. Allsopp was a BLACK Guyanese MALE scholar.

    Yard fowlism=the political practice of giving or receiving favours in return for toadying, sycophancy, in politics.

  49. Felicia Doughtz Avatar
    Felicia Doughtz

    @Silly Woman,
    Don’t insult yourself out of context on my behalf! When someone ‘prostitutes’ themselves regardless of the perceived benefits, it does not have to be physically, but metaphorically. Psychologically, like many negroes, you find euphoria in distancing yourself from the struggles of other africans, especially in conflict wth the slave master. Watch the film Django, pay attention to Samuel Jackson’s character “Stephen”.When an african, stands on the frontlines of the racist abuse of other africans, shielding the non-african perpetrators from criticism by way of your participation, you are a negro bedwench!!Your justification is that those africans have a different passport & that you snob that you are morally superior.Callously boasting of her ignorance of the situation… “never been to guyana…No desire to either”. You are a contrarian type of negro bedwench who salivates at the opportunity to be seen & heard with views contary to the african community and their interest, but always conspicuously aligned or in favour with the slace masters’ interests!! As i said initially… All for a ‘pat on the head’…or…the ass!! Negro bedwench!

  50. Silly Woman Avatar
    Silly Woman

    @GP March 14, 2020 8:59 AM “THE WOMEN RANTING AND RAVING ON BU.”

    “morning Dr. GP. I trust that you and the madam are both well this morning.

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