Dear Editor,
I note your Editorial today, June 24, 2025, titled Criminal Defamation.” The editorial justly condemned the PPP regime’s fabricated false charges of criminal defamation that were unlawfully instituted against me and excoriated by Chief Justice Roxanne George in her judgment. I commend the newspaper for doing so.
You, however, diminished the valorous editorial denunciation of the government’s Hitler-like, autocratic aggression with the false claim that “We would be the first to admit that some of the views of Mr. Burke are extremist in nature. ”
Respectfully, I completely reject the notion that some of my views are extremist in nature. I challenge you to state some extremist views that I have espoused? It is unfortunately elitist and objectionable to deem a campaign for justice and equal rights “extremist.”
I am resolute and strident in my criticism of, and advocacy against, the PPP regime’s racism, racial discrimination and oppression against the African Guyanese population, as well as the unchecked corruption in which they boldly engage with infuriating audaciousness.
Senior members of this PPP government formed death squads that killed hundreds of people including journalist Ronald Waddell and political activist Courtney Crum Ewing, with no justice. That’s extreme! The press and the population should not rest until those responsible are held to account. Instead these lives have just been discounted as expendable. In what other society is this acceptable?
Members of this PPP government and their Police Force have covered up the raping of children and women, the murder of Joel and Isaiah Henry, the murder of Adriana Younge, and countless other heinous crimes, because the perpetrators are from their cabal and party. There’s been no justice. That’s extreme! Must we accept this in silence? I refuse to. In what other society is this acceptable?
Members of this PPP government have starved opposition Regions and communities for government funds and shut out African Guyanese from benefiting from the oil and gas revenues and economic development of Guyana.
They only started rushing to give African Guyanese some insignificant government contracts when CGID, Attorney Nigel Hughes, Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton and other opposition Members of Parliament and activists, and I, began to pummel them over such despicable and overt racism which effectively saw the transfer of the country’s wealth to the PPP and their ethnic collective. That’s extreme. In which other society is such apartheid policies acceptable?
Which other government in the world can get away with what the PPP government did to the people of Mocha Arcadia – destroying their lives? That’s extreme!
I live in the US and have been a tireless warrior for justice for the people in Guyana who are victims of injustice, extrajudicial killing, racial discrimination and political victimization by those in the PPP regime.
If I was residing in Guyana, the leadership of PPP would have orchestrated for me to be killed, there would be no justice. I would have been another Ronald Waddell or Courtney Crum Ewing. In which other society is that acceptable?
I live in the US and the PPP government in order to silence me made up allegations : all sorts of crazy, fantastic and wildly false allegations against me to portray me as a criminal.
Then they did the unthinkable. They sent two armed men; one of whom is GPF Assistant Superintendent Rodwell Sarabo, to my Brooklyn, New York, home brandishing guns and shoving papers at me. Sarabo was subsequently promoted for his bravery. Where is the outrage? If Sarabo and his accomplice were shot dead rushing into my property with a gun, the entire country and press would be outraged then!
No media in Guyana except the Village Voice newspaper condemned the PPP regime’s violation of the sovereignty of the US and the laws of Guyana. In fact Kaieteur Newspaper carried this just as another normal news item. When Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo, Attorney General Anil Nandlall and the Police Commissioner made statements to the effect that the government will do it again to any Guyanese in any country in the world, Kaieteur Newspaper said nothing. In what society is this acceptable?
It took the Supreme Court of Guyana to condemn this egregious attack on me in New York in a landmark ruling.
Moreover, in addition to that, the government sent one of the most notorious gangsters in the Guyana Police Force, Superintendent Mitchell Ceasar, to investigate me in the US, again in violation of United States law.
I am putting it to you and the people of Guyana that while Ceasar was on his mission in the US, he tried to hire a hitman to “take out Rickford Burke,” for the PPP. This is not speculation or conjecture. The FBI and New York City Police Department have cogent, compelling and irrefutable evidence of this. This investigation is current and I cannot say more. What is more extremist than this?
Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall has written the US government making completely false allegations against me. In his several false communications with the US government, Nandlall submitted fraudulent malicious material (which he called evidence), which the FBI investigated and found to be ridiculous nonsense. Why hasn’t Nandlall been disbarred? In what other country is this acceptable?
There is much more!
The PPP is out to kill me, or to frame me and jail me because of my penetrating advocacy against their racism, injustice and corruption. Amidst all of this aggression and transnational repression crimes against me, the press has been silent. If I were not African Guyanese, the media in Guyana would have exploded. But this is what the promotion of PPP ethnic supremacy has done to Guyana, ripped out our conscience and moral compass.
As the victims of all the above, when I fight back, you call it “extreme.” I reject that. I am a descendant of the indomitable slaves who fought and abolished slavery. No one with the mindset of slave masters will dominate or conquer me.
Not now! Not ever!
Rickford Burke
President
Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID)
