ROHEE can try with a candidate like FRANK Anthony.

Roheee for President!

Rohee’s handling of the Home Affairs Ministry has exposed all of his shortcomings

Dear Editor, The recent appointment of Mr. Clement Rohee to the position of General Secretary of the ruling PPPC, demonstrates the confidence and trust that his comrades in the Executive Committee of that party have in him. Whether one likes Rohee or not his political achievements to date is a success story, particularly when one takes into consideration where he came from, given his early life outside the Metropole Cinema. His upward mobility both politically and socially warrants some consideration. The most important development in respect to his appointment to this important office is that it has improved and strengthened considerably “comrade” Rohee’s chances for a run for the presidency of the country thereby making good his observation that “goat na bite me” . This was his eloquent response when the question was posed to him by a reporter as to whether or not he was contesting to be his party’s presidential candidate for the 2012 general and regional elections.

It'll be Anil Nandalall if Ramotar decides he does not want to run.

Rohee, Gail and Jagdeo won't allow that.

Let's hope that they allow democracy to prevail.

Skelly  check this out.

The PPP 2013 congress: Dictatorship versus reality

Mr. Ralph Ramkarran has done an interesting analysis on the recent election that came out of the PPP congress last month. He argued that Anil Nandlall who came in fourth at the voting to select the 35-member Central Committee was not elected into the Executive Committee by that 35-member unit. Mr. Ramkarran said that there was a campaign at the congress against Mr. Nandlall.

I am not a big fan of KN, especially an article written by Freddie. If that's true, I hope they change and allow for a more level playing field.

I think so too. Here is an interesting letter.

Were the PPP 2013 congress elections manipulated?

Dear Editor, Were the 2013 PPP congress results fixed and manipulated? Was there fraud at the PPP congress elections? Election fraud and manipulation is illegal and unfair interference with the electoral process that can and do affect the outcome of the elections. We know there were smear campaigns, mudslinging and influence peddling at the recent PPP congress. Donald Ramotar and Clement Rohee have commented on it (see “Probe likely into campaigning for PPP Central Committee elections”, Demerara Waves, August 19, 2013). Moses Nagamootoo and Ralph Ramkarran have spoken and written about this vulgar, poisonous, vitriolic and manipulative pressure practice to try to alter the outcome of PPP congress votes. Then there is the grave concern raised in Dennis Scott Chabrol’s article in Demerara Waves titled “PPP to declare election results Sunday; Nokta didn’t seek office” (August 3, 2013). This article noted there were 1,097 delegates were eligible to cast ballots for the 35 Central Committee members and five candidate members but there were 1,599 ballots! Now, if this information is correct, this is very troubling, shocking, dangerous, abominable, an assault on democracy and a denial of the democratic expression of PPP supporters and members and potential fraud. You cannot have 1097 eligible voters and have 1599 ballots. No election can be democratic with such a fraudulent and unfair structure. The cornerstone of democracy is one person one vote or one ballot for one voter. To have 1097 eligible voters and 1599 ballots is to practise electoral fraud and democratic denial. If somehow the PPP 2013 congress election allowed some of those delegates who voted the right to cast more than one ballot, it was a fraudulent election, inconsistent with the principles of democracy and with the Constitution of Guyana and warrants a police investigation and constitutional challenge by PPP members. The third concern with the PPP congress elections is what appears to be a denial of the right to vote by some PPP delegates. Apparently, at the last minute before the actual vote, chosen and handpicked delegates were given a special delegate yellow card which allowed them to vote while others were excluded. The fourth signal to potential fraud and manipulation at the PPP’s recent congress is the delegate selection process. The last congress in 2008 generated swirling accusations of delegate selection manipulation by the individual in charge of it in order to pad his votes and popularity. This is nothing new to the PPP but the outrageous results gained by Ramotar and Jagdeo with 886 and 851 votes respectively and other bizarre occurrences like the election of Kwame McKoy to the PPP Central Committee in 2013 raise heightened suspicion of electoral manipulation. Let us examine the numbers to see if these stupendous returns by Ramotar and Jagdeo meet the statistical smell test, particularly after it was evident that before the Congress some PPP members openly campaigned against some, including Jagdeo, seeking position on the Central Committee. In the 2008 congress where there was no active agenda and campaign against Jagdeo and others before the congress and where Jagdeo was at the height of his popularity following the 2006 election result, Jagdeo got 777 votes, the highest ever vote count in a PPP congress. How could Ramotar and Jagdeo, the two pariahs responsible for the political shame and humiliation of the PPP with its tumultuous fall from grace since 2011 amidst scandals and corruption, get 886 and 851 votes in a PPP congress post-2011? Based on statistical experience from the 2005 and 2008 congresses where between 1000 and 1100 delegates were eligible to vote, it is obvious that in order to garner the stupendous numbers Jagdeo and Ramotar obtained (886 and 851 votes respectively), the actual votes cast had to be incredibly high. However, this was certainly not the case in 2013. Votes cast for the 35 Central Committee (CC) members were as follows for the following congresses: 2005 (14,476), 2008 (15,378) and 2013 (15,909). There are no statistics for how many were eligible to vote in 2005 and how many actually voted. In 2008, 1020 were eligible to vote and 913 actually voted. In 2013, 1096 were eligible to vote but the PPP never revealed how many delegates actually voted, another red flag. In 2013 there were 531 more CC votes cast than in 2008 although there were 76 more eligible voters with 35 CC votes each for a maximum of 2660 more possible votes. This alone confirms the voter participation rate in 2013 was lower than 2008 and further confirms that the Jagdeo and Ramotar results are a shocking statistical outlier based on past experience! Further, if we look at the average of votes cast by eligible voter for the selection of the CC, it is patently obvious that eligible voters voted at a lesser rate than in 2008 (15.08 versus 14.51 based on 15378/1020 vs 15909/1096). Yet, in statistically stupendous, shocking and bizarre fashion, Donald Ramotar and Bharrat Jagdeo soared to staggering, never-before-seen and never-before-produced heights. 2008 produced the highest average of votes cast by eligible voter yet the highest vote getter (Jagdeo) got only 777 votes. Donald Ramotar has never obtained more than 637 votes at any PPP congress. Kwame McKoy has never ever been elected to the Central Committee before 2013 and he remains one of the most unpopular figures with PPP members. Yet in 2013, Donald Ramotar and Jagdeo received 886 and 851 votes respectively and McKoy was elected to the CC. A question to those in the know – where do the loyalties of the 10 new faces to the Central Committee lie (Nigel Dharamlall, Shyam Nokta, Vishwa Mahadeo, Desmond Kissoon, David Armogan, Omar Sharif, Mohammed Haroon Hussein, Brian Allicock, Kwame Mc Coy and Chitreka Dass)? Are they Jagdeoites or Ramotarians, meaning they got their break, promotion, ascendancy and hold on position and power through or under Jagdeo and not Ramotar? After all, this is 29% of the vote in the Central Committee and they arrived in the CC after an election that stinks of manipulation, hijacking, fraud and fixing. The silence of the lambs who support and vote for the PPP was expected on this overpowering stench emanating from the PPP congress election. So was their hypocrisy. There has not been a peep from them about this PPP congress election. It is only fitting for people who elected a former PNC-ite  in Kwame McKoy the highest office of the PPP. After this debacle of willingly accepting highly questionable internal elections, do PPP supporters have any moral basis to demand the PNC apologize for rigging elections? Will PPP supporters and members be ever taken seriously if the PNC returns to power and rigs elections again? Will the international press and world powers ever listen to the PPP if it loses power and is rigged out of power forever? Do PPP supporters and members, predominantly Indians, think of the repercussions of their immoral posturing and the grave consequences of their silence to internal PPP atrocities? These mute prevarications from PPP supporters to grin and bear democratic and electoral debasement of their own will encourage tyranny and debasement by others. This is a dangerous journey unfolding in this nation and it will have tragic consequences if the political apple cart ever gets overturned. M. Maxwell

I will try and find Ralph's analysis and post it later.

Ow you all allow Rohhee a chance NUH!

ROHEE fuh Prez, time to send Ramu to pasture.

Rohee will have his chance.

The opposition AFC/PNC party tried to remove Rohee and failed.

The AFC paid the price for it's internal corruption charges after ELEVEN (11) members of the AFC fled the party regarding the stench of corruption in the AFC.

Ask T.K.

11???  MITS is this true????  Name them YUJI???

Or is this another PPP LIE!

Yugi numbers is an incorrigible and a congenital liar. I wonder from whom he inherited his traits.

DID ROHEE DO THIS????

These are his chilling words made under oath during his testimony in the Lusignan trial.

“ME AND FINE MAN WERE TIGHT. I WAS WITH HIM IN LUISIGNAN, BARTICA AND LINDO CREEK. LUSIGNAN 11 PEOPLE WERE KILLED, BARTICA 12 PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND LINDO CREEK 10 PEOPLE WERE KILL 33 PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN I WAS WITH FINE MAN AND I AM NOT FACING A SINGLE CHARGE.”

These words were recorded by the Trial Judge Mr. Justice Navindra Singh and are contained in the appeal record, a public document at pages 256 to 257. Copies of this extract from his testimony are attached. He was the State’s sole eye witness who was jointly charged for the Lusiganan murders. A mere week before the commencement of the Luisignan Trial Mr. Williams had the charges of murder against him mysteriously dropped by the State and he was released.

Perhaps the people of Lusignan may wish to inquire of the Attorney General and the DPP, why the State, which is responsible for protecting and serving them, would let a self confessed murderer of 33 citizens go free without a single charge. No other person in the history of this country has enjoyed such a pardon.

There is not a group without some fundamental grievance in Guyana.

The PPP has failed Guyana.