Dear Editor,
Whilst “Dem boys seh” is written and read for laughs it nonetheless creates impressions, many of them misleading and injurious to persons and our society.
I want to correct any impression that Mr. Jagdeo, our Leader of the Opposition (LOP), was in any way incorrect or sought to spin or mislead when challenging the AFC’s claim that it won 10% of the votes of the recently concluded LGE. Our LOP without doing a calculation estimated that the AFC could not have won more than 3.8 to 4%. He was correct.
From our PPP/C tabulation of Statements of Poll for the Proportional Representation (PR) votes, there were 119,214 for PPP/C, 61,032 for APNU, 7,379 for AFC and 467 for URP giving a total of 188,002 PR votes cast. AFC’s portion 7,379/188,002, equals 3.92%.
I say no more.
Yours faithfully,
Samuel A A Hinds
Former President
Former Prime Minister
