Dear Editor,
The July – August 2019 House to House Registration Exercise, supposedly authorised by the then Guyana Elections Commission Chairman, Justice James Patterson and found to be legal by Chief Justice Roxane George, has become the breaking point for Guyana’s General and Regional Elections.
The elections are scheduled to be held on March 2, 2020; the breaking point is due to the time-constrained, unfair and unjustifiable attempt to conflate the National Register of Registrants with the names captured in the broken House to House registration process.
The registration exercise commenced on July 20, 2019 and somehow managed to capture 370,000 registrants in 42 days, before it was stopped on August 31, 2019; the stoppage came 29 days after the selection of Justice Claudette Singh as Chairperson of GECOM.
The intended consequences of the futile, defective and aborted House to House registration exercise, is proving to be as effective an election delaying tactic as the argument that 33 is not a majority of 65; the latter argument was used to delay elections that were constitutionally due on or before March 21, 2019, which amazingly found legal support in Guyana’s Court of Appeal.
After the successful no confidence vote on December 21, 2018 gave birth to multiple violations of Guyana’s “sacred” Constitution by the executive branch of our government, we now have the unimaginable being normalised.
Too many men and women in our government have reversed their positions of virtue and now selectively justify and try to normalise non-adherence to Guyana’s Constitution; and, in this way, place the country in a constitutional quagmire.
Instead of servant leadership for the inclusive development of Guyana, we have a political leadership class making truth of a quote from Adolf Hitler’s favourite philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche that “The love of power is the demon of men.”
Yours faithfully,
Nigel Hinds
