Lewis is less of a trade unionist and more of a PNC defender, activist

Dear Editor,
I noticed that Mr Lincoln Lewis, using everything he’s got, is spending all his time in ongoing attacks against President Jagdeo and the PPP.
Notwithstanding that the PNC kicked him out and David Hinds as Chronicle columnists, these gentlemen cannot help themselves, but must defend the Coalition that is trampling on the Constitution and wallowing as an illegal caretaker Government.

You have to give Lewis and Hinds A+ for loyalty to the PNC and their pro-Afro politics. At a time when trade unionism needs strong advocates with the emergence of oil, and when workers need to be organised, Lewis spends most of his time politicking for the illegal usurper Government, and attacking President Jagdeo for defying the creeping PNC dictatorship.

Lewis has shed his trade unionism cloak to become a full-fledged PNC politico to make sure the PPP does not win again. It would do Lewis well if he would spend time dealing with his own union issues and designing strategies with the TUC to make sure the new oil-related companies would allow collective bargaining.
Truth be told, both Lewis and Hinds spoke out against the PNC in the dark days of PNC dictatorial rule, at a time when we needed black voices to speak out against the wickedness of the PNC.

Burnham and the PNC had become a disgrace to black people, and the more intellectual types, such as Lewis and Hinds, were bold enough to take the side of the suffering masses. They are to be applauded for that.
That was the era when Rodney and the WPA mocked Burnham as a “King Kong,” and as having a reverse Midas touch. Even recently, Hinds and Lewis, as Chronicle columnists, were critiquing and faulting the PNC for its many failures.

So it is somewhat surprising that, even though they have been dissed by the PNC, these comrades are so committed to the PNC, despite the rapid corruption and its many violations of the Constitution after the Government was defeated in December 2018.

Nevertheless, President Jagdeo, well loved by at least half of the country, continues to drive fear in the hearts of the PNC machinery, and that’s why he is revered among his supporters as the one who can deal with PNC bullyism. When you look out there, there are many Johnny-come-lately aspirants who want to be President, but where are they when the PPP is on the streets withstanding the PNC dictatorship and holding the Government accountable.

Lewis should know that the PPP would always defend democracy and the rights of all Guyanese. That is their record and that is their history.

Sincerely,
Jerry Singh