Readers may want to know why this space again this Sunday lacks its usual text.
I have removed the column which would normally appear here.
Life is not normal in Guyana. It has been disrupted by two plagues. One is coronavirus. Please stay safe. Follow the protocols.
The other plague is that of rigging elections and fracturing democracy which we thought had been eradicated in 1992. It has returned in virulent form in 2020.
I wish to support Joe Singh’s eloquent and powerful Open Letter to the President.
Joe Singh is a proven and impartial patriot who has rendered outstanding service to the nation in a varied career of exemplary achievements.
We can only hope that his letter to President Granger receives a worthy response which will save the nation from pariah status and permanent damage.
As it is, our disfavour regionally and internationally could not come at a worst time — just when we need all the help we can get to confront coronavirus, to deal with any Venezuelan trouble and to make the most of our new oil resources.
