For 30 years I have published a column in the Stabroek News every week. On two Sundays recently I missed columns in order to lament the terrible damage being done to Guyana by the crude attempts to rig the tabulation of the recent election results.
Now I am removing a column I supplied this Sunday because the obstructions put in the way of a rapid, fair and credible re-tally have multiplied and grown more crude and desperate and publishing an ordinary column does not seem as important as registering a protest and a plea in the light of the rapidly increasing damage inflicted on the economy, the social and political fabric, the regional and international standing, the very psyche of the nation.