Lowenfield, Myers, and Mingo must face the laws of the land

Dear Editor,

Our country will soon have Local Government Elections, the first elections to be hosted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) since the debacle following the March 2020 polling processes. It is time to re-look at some of the core influencing factors to the problems that threatened the core fabric of democratic existence and took the country to the precipice of national incivility.

No loopholes should prevent the imposition of the strongest penalties on those culpable for the flagrant violations of the applicable laws, because of the need to make the eradication of elections rigging absolute and to assure national confidence and credible election results.

As a collective, our citizens are aware of the massive degree of caution undertaken by the newly appointed administrators, to lift the suffered credibility of the organisation caused by the questionable actions of the former Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield et.al cabal. One, therefore, anticipates the delivery of a more fluent results-driven agenda that will be instructive to commencing a necessary resuscitation of national confidence required for an enhanced GECOM’s image. Historically, there is much justification for condemna- tion of the role officials of the GECOM played and were able to escape with as they flagrantly abused the related laws and approved procedures. Frankly speaking, for decades, the key orchestrators were protected and rewarded for cheating the nation by the PNC who through clandestine maneuvers supported the muscled manipulation of decision-making and controls of the Elections Commission.

History has documented the distasteful experiences of the PPP who were kept in opposition due to the damning condemnatory controls of GECOM Commissioners like Harold Bollers. Comparatively, one only has to take a cursory look at the decisions of President Granger’s imposed

The attempts targeted a repeat at re-establishing undemocratic foundational fault lines that had supported the PNC’s thievery for decades. Thankfully, the abuses of this power were wrenched away by the decisions of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) when the challenges were addressed.

Although he previously operated from within the shadows and under the covers of the political imbalance at the Commission Level, the infamous CCJ’s decision concerning James Patterson as Chairman served to strip Lowenfield of his disguising cover as he had to step up in the most flagrant ways. The likely results that he would have been caught naturally materialised, but barely, as his ejection would not have materialised without the interventionist guardian rejection of the national and international communities.

Rational observation of the scenario points to the systemic cheating agenda and their seeming immunity to rigging. These influences stem from the core character of the PNC operatives, which informs the harder problem to dispel for long-term focus and address. What is certain is that deliberate attempts to distort the outcome of the elections by the senior functionary within GECOM, must not be condoned.

Consequently, Lowen - field, Myers, and Mingo must face the courts immediately and stand the consequences for their alleged deliberate and blatant attempts to derail the National and Regional Elections in 2020. The swift execution of justice in this respect is required to unequivocally confirm that it is not at all ok to cheat and steal in particular, the rights and destiny of our peoples.

Editor, since 1968, the PNC operatives took pride in rolling out an indoctrination agenda that achieving and maintaining power by any means necessary, is a nationalistic ideal. Sadly, and duplicitously, those who were more strongly involved in

Continued on page 7