The APNU+AFC’s latest attack on CARICOM Heads of State

THE Opposition APNU+AFC is using the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse to attack the Heads of CARICOM. This is evident from Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan’s rant during his Wednesday, July 7th, 2021 Facebook live programme, which is also aired live on the official page of the APNU+AFC coalition.

Duncan referred to the leaders of the CARICOM countries as “gangsters,” “hustlers” and “hypocrites,” during his vitriolic attack. WPA Executive and coalition activist David Hinds adopted a similar posture on his live appearance on another APNU+AFC Facebook programme. He, however, posited that Indo-Guyanese support for CARICOM has always been low, and with the Indo-Guyanese PPP/C Government being in power, the country’s support for CARICOM is at its lowest. Further, he blames the CARICOM heads for this because of their “entanglement” in Guyana’s March 2nd, 2020 elections.

In my view what Hinds is doing is faulting CARICOM for not supporting the APNU+AFC’s attempt to remain in office through fraud, in defiance of the will of the Guyanese electorate – he is basically chastising the CARICOM heads for not aligning with “one of their own.”

Duncan’s attack on CARICOM is along the same vein, except that he is masking it with contrived annoyance at the assassination of President Moïse.
No matter how they mask it, what is clear to all is that this is a concerted attack on the CARICOM Heads by the APNU+AFC in reprisal for their refusal to be influenced by their injections of race during the rigging attempt last year.