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Caribbean L 14 ife, Aug. 23, 2019 BQ
Guyanese opposition raises fears of
voter padding for general election
President of Guyana, David Arthur Granger. Associated Press / Seth Wenig
received from Brazil
showing that of the 8,476
who have deplaned since
January and the end of
July, about 80 percent
of them have turned up
at immigration ports in
northern Brazilian states
after crossing Guyana’s
southwestern border.
Most don’t bother to
check out with Guyanese
immigration as they are
free to cross the border
Takatu River Bridge
without hindrance but
they do show up at federal
Brazilian checkpoints.
Most also abandon the
return portion of their
round trip tickets.
Critics say that once
the move to funnel large
groups of Haitians to
third countries comes
in the midst of Guyana’s
election season, suspicions
about their intent
are bound to surface.
As nationals of the
Caribbean Community,
the Haitians are granted
six-month stays on
their arrival. A few hundreds
have found jobs as
security guards at commercial
enterprises and
private homes. Others
have headed to the interior
and some have found
work as farm hands and
related fields.
Furnishing information
to show that government
is not participating
in a scheme to rebalance
the population in favor of
Afro Guyanese, Felix said
authorities had moved to
ensure they got the data
from Brazil and have
now put in in the public
domain for debate.
Accounting for the
failure of many to check
out on the Guyana border
side, Felix said that
local records show only
1,170 of the 8,476 have
actually left but Brazilian
data indicate that
a whooping 6,925 have
indeed done so.
“The opposition elements
had provided figures
of quite a different
sort. They claimed that
8,602 Haitians arrived
in Guyana and only 13
departed. I leave the public
to make their own
judgments on these figures.
So far they haven’t
produced anything of
substance to substantiate
what they have been
claiming, but they have
just thrown it out there
and left it like that for
others to pick up and run
with it. Our figures are
standing in our favor in
the eyes of right-thinking
people in Guyana,”
charged the minister.
Traditionally, Guyanese
vote strictly along
racial lines. The PPP is
expected to pick up the
bulk of its votes from
Indo Guyanese, while
the governing coalition
of retired army general
David Granger is
known to be supported
by a majority of Afros
and Guyanese of mixed
ancestry.
Elections are expected
sometime in December.
Granger’s administration
with its wafer thin,
one seat parliamentary
majority was back in late
December toppled by the
opposition when one of
the government’s own
lawmakers voted with the
opposition in a stunning
no confidence motion. He
has since fled to Canada.
It is now in caretaker or
interim status, responsible
largely for taking
the country into fresh
elections. Polls show a
tight race between the
two main groups.
Felix had earlier this
month complained about
the level of hate and racism
thrown against the
Haitians.
“They are just passing
through and yet they
are attracting all the
negative thoughts and
actions of people who
are seeking power. Everyone
is making noise
about the Haitians who
simply use Guyana as a
point of transit to get to
their diaspora in Columbia,
Cayenne or Panama.
This position resembles
xenophobia and is even
practiced by certain people
seeking power,” he
had said.
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