Oh Lord....Here is an old reminder of why the Coalition should not gain office. The tide of its victory will wash in the mud crabs like Rickford.

seriously . . . you think this is all about Rickford Burke and his crew?

people like you remind me of right wing talk radio turning every civil rights issue into a referendum on the credibility of Al Sharpton

what really is your motivation here sir?

I do not think this is all about Rickford Burke and his crew.

Let's be frank Rickford Burke and his crew will get to roam the corridors of State House once again.

David Granger is not the only one in APNU. It includes cretins like Rickford.

I'm not a party loyalist, I just calls em as I sees em. It wouldn't be the worst idea for someone to pull Rickford aside and tell him to shut the hell up and quit reminding liberal Indians and Indians on the fence why we don't like the PNC. I think the Coalition has won all the "I hate coolie people" votes out there without his help.

you are avoiding the substance of my post

no one ever called you a party loyalalist!

Look Dude,

My motivation is to point out my personal reaction to seeing this. That's it. There is no agenda, hidden or otherwise.

I find your attempt to draw a line between me and Rush Limbaugh rubbishing the Voting Rights act or police brutality (or something to that effect) to be very very disingenuous.

I am pointing out a fact. A Coalition win (while still being desirable overall) will still have very undesirable consequences. Like Rickford getting a second lease on life and relevancy.

exactly how am i being "disingenuous" by pairing your use of Rickford Burke here and, say, Rush Limbaugh's take on Al Sharpton in the corridors of City Hall and the White House?

is this not your statement?:

"Here is an old reminder of why the Coalition should not gain office. The tide of its victory will wash in the mud crabs like Rickford."

I stand behind those highlighted remarks. It is an argument against the Coalition. It is not however a compelling argument. And I'm sure the PPP will use it against Diaspora Guyanese Indians who support the Coalition. I don't know any Diaspora Guyanese Indian enamored with Rickford.

Lots of politicians and candidates have to associate with slimeballs in the electoral arena.

fair enough . . . except that it is not simply "an" argument, it is 'your' argument against the coalition

how was i being "disingenuous" again?

Selection of Elisabeth Harper cannot conceal racism and corruption

Dear Editor,
The People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) has come down with schizophrenia and is in panic over the merger of the main opposition APNU and AFC, which will contest the May 11, 2015 general elections as a single party. The panic is not misplaced. The coalition portends an end of the corrupt, racist PPP regime.
Combined, the APNU and AFC garnered a majority of votes in the last general elections. They then formed a modus vivendi to control the Parliament, rendering the PPP a minority government.
The PPP government is an ethnocracy that practices institutional racism. Every elections cycle, the party acts like it is bipolar. It pretends to love Afro-Guyanese and secures some votes.
It’s election time in Guyana and the PPP is in a desperate scramble to camouflage its racist image so as to compete with the multi-racial opposition coalition.
Last Saturday the party dumped Prime Minister, Sam Hinds, and hastily selected Mrs. Elisabeth Harper – Director General of the Foreign Service and Ambassador to Caricom, as its Prime Ministerial (PM) candidate.
Elisabeth Harper started off on the wrong footing. Without resigning from the public service, she appeared on the PPP platform with President Donald Ramator on Saturday and declared her candidacy. Her appearance is a breach of public service laws. Mrs. Harper cannot be a candidate for the National Assembly and simultaneously serve ad Director General. This is a reprehensible violation of the Constitution.  It is unfortunate that her first act was joining her party in its incessant disregard for the Constitution. She must resign from the public service.
A career diplomat of some repute, Mrs. Harper hitherto never overtly aligned herself with any political party. Her nomination is therefore so superficial, that no one is oblivious to the certainty that she will become another Sam Hinds. Neither are we oblivious to their hoax to trick women to vote for the PPP.
Mrs. Harper has never been a PPP member nor in its leadership. Does the PPP expect us to believe that it will allow such a political novice and outsider, who is an Afro-Guyanese woman, to take over the party and Presidency, if it wins?
The PPP thinks Guyanese have amnesia. It believes that we have forgotten how it eviscerated poor Sam Hinds when President Cheddi Jagan died and by constitutional mandate he ascended to the presidency. The constitution mandates that the Prime Minister shall become President in event the President resigns, dies or becomes incapacitated. The PPP however, made a mockery of the Constitution when President Jagan died.
After Hinds became President, PPP insiders forced him to appoint President Jagan’s wife, Mrs. Janet Jagan as Prime Minister. Once she became Prime Minister, they stunningly forced Hinds to resign as President. He did, and Mrs. Jagan automatically became the President.
Clearly, the PPP recruited Mrs. Harper to court black and women’s votes, but she has done nothing to improve the lives of these two constituencies. Has she worked on the ground to help develop a single local community or preserve any town or village? Has she worked on the ground to improve the lives of women; including ending pervasive violence against women in Guyana? Has she been involved in any women’s organization of any kind?
Has she at least spoken out against violence or discrimination against women, or advocated for gender equality for women in Guyana? Has she ever helped to improve the lives and education of young girls? Has she done anything to address poverty or to preserve the human rights of Guyanese?
Elisabeth Harper implemented the PPP policy that jettisoned Afro-Guyanese from the Foreign Service. When we expressed outrage over the PPP’s all Indian Ambassador corps, and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said that there were no Afro-Guyanese qualified to be an Ambassador, Elisabeth Harper remained silent and went along with the pretense.
She benefited directly from this PPP hegemony. She was the only Afro-Guyanese Ambassador who they retained at the time. This was her reward for cutting down her fellow Afro-Guyanese from the service. Does the PPP expect her to now influence us, when they used her to disenfranchise us?
Rickford Burke

Caribj will be very proud of the RACIST and IGNORANT Burkey Letter!!!!!

Oh Lord....Here is an old reminder of why the Coalition should not gain office. The tide of its victory will wash in the mud crabs like Rickford.

Caribj will be very proud of the RACIST and IGNORANT Burkey Letter!!!!!

PFirst, I want to point out that Mrs. Harper has the right to join any political party of her choice.  IF you are not a member, then you sign up sothat you can become a full member..

Don't be taken by the fact that AFC stole 25,000 votes from the PPP by lying to the Guyanese people, that they will now vote for the Renew PNC via a pre-coalition agreement.

Racism is a state od mind and it exists if you want it to.  The AFC and the APNU both tried to portray a scenerio of racial conflict within the PPP despite the fact that the PPP is not an Indian party.   If the  PPP is an Indian party, then you shouldn't be surprised if they all vote for the PPP. 

The enemies of the PPP are running scared.  Moses NagamOotoo is trying hard to paint a picture of racial conflict. he will not succeed.

PFirst, I want to point out that Mrs. Harper has the right to join any political party of her choice.  IF you are not a member, then you sign up sothat you can become a full member..

Don't be taken by the fact that AFC stole 25,000 votes from the PPP by lying to the Guyanese people, that they will now vote for the Renew PNC via a pre-coalition agreement.

Racism is a state od mind and it exists if you want it to.  The AFC and the APNU both tried to portray a scenerio of racial conflict within the PPP despite the fact that the PPP is not an Indian party.   If the  PPP is an Indian party, then you shouldn't be surprised if they all vote for the PPP. 

The enemies of the PPP are running scared.  Moses NagamOotoo is trying hard to paint a picture of racial conflict. he will not succeed.

If wishes were horses beggars will ride..

If wishes were horses beggars will ride..

still a beggar or a thief