‘Lowenfield display’ is something you see in a comic book

Dear Editor,
Guyanese, we all must remember that it was Mr Keith Lowenfield who required a total of 156 days to recount approximately 400,000 ballots; however, it took him less than 60 seconds to disenfranchise 115,000 voters.
The ‘Lowenfield display’ is something you see in a comic book. Lowenfield has proven to be the biggest phantom of all. Guyanese, was it not honesty integrity and decency that David Granger ran on the APNU/AFC 2015 ticket, as the man with “Honesty, Integrity and Decency”? Imagine that!!
“Honesty” – as not prone to telling lies?? “Integrity” and “Decency” as with having moral principles and uprightness, and living in accordance with them?

After five years of watching Granger and his cabals in action, most Guyanese can only conclude that Granger has to be the biggest hypocrite in Guyana for fooling and lying to the Guyanese citizens and the APNU/AFC supporters.
The 2020 elections continue to unveil the unbridled hypocrisy on the part of the APNU/AFC coalition Government. Of course, this is in the context of what it would have condemned while in Opposition, as against what it is now practising in caretaker government. Such glaring and unbridled hypocrisy has not only led to a Guyanese loss of confidence in the APNU/AFC, but a dissipation of trust, making it virtually impossible for people to believe what it communicates to the populace. The question of trust is not just confined to the hypocritical stance on the electoral system and the efforts to steal an election, but on many other issues, including corruption, good governance, and the safeguarding of democracy.

On all these counts, while in the Opposition, APNU/AFC vilified the PPPC Government with untold accusations. In doing so, it pledged to rid the nation of such undesirable traits. Here we are today in 2020, and the reality is that, under the APNU/AFC tenure in government, corruption is deemed to be rife and unimaginable, with an absence of transparency. We have all seen the numerous accusations of corruption levelled against the APNU/AFC Caretaker Government with the various transactions made after March 02′ 2020 General and Regional Elections and with reference to its pledge to uphold democracy.

This APNU/AFC has allowed the world to look at Guyana as a mockery. It’s clear that no influential government in the world that had held Guyana as a friend will accept David Granger’s presidency. After what Prime Minister Mia Mottley said yesterday, it is clear that she will not be one of the CARICOM countries to recognize a Granger presidency. CARICOM’s vested interest in Guyana’s election stems from the body’s obligation to “stand for something” as it seeks to promote the continued development of Caribbean people. Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, in her statement said, “What is going on (in Guyana) is a little bizarre, to say the least, but we shall wait and see and let the process play out over the next few days”.

One doesn’t have to read through the lines to understand the message she communicated to the people of Guyana. However, it was the CARICOM Observer team which was described as the “most legitimate interlocutor” on the Guyana situation by President David Granger.

The Guyanese citizens, including supporters of APNU/AFC, are convinced they were duped and fooled by the coalition, as trust has been replaced by hypocrisy. Among other things, the Coalition accused Mottley of being “ill-advised and ill-informed”, but this was later withdrawn, citing “errors.”

But Mottley set the record straight, noting that the Caribbean region has been one which has seen its citizens move from poverty to countries being on their way to achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And part and parcel of developing the Caribbean region has been the “Freedom of Choice”, which today has exposed the extent of that hypocrisy of the APNU/AFC cabals.

Sincerely,
David Adams