On an usually quiet street in downtown Kingston, scores of ordinary Guyanese from all backgrounds, take turns each hot day and long night to closely watch over more than a dozen dingy shipping containers stacked high.
Crammed with the precious cargo of ballot boxes from the March 2, 2020 regional and general elections, the locked metal units contain the hundreds of thousands of votes cast by eligible nationals, who had hoped that the new Government would have been smoothly in place three weeks later.
Now we are facing another equally grave threat, this one biological and equally insidious to our already precarious existence with the emergence of the novel coronavirus killer pandemic and the first COVID-19 cases in a vulnerable country, deemed as having among the region’s weakest health systems.
