Guyana needs a national conversation on fostering good ethnic relations, but mainly of a different sort from the ERC’s two-day talk shop. The main national conversation must instead occur at the community and inter-community levels.
Guyana needs a national conversation on fostering good ethnic relations, but mainly of a different sort from the ERC’s two-day talk shop. The main national conversation must instead occur at the community and inter-community levels.
By not recognizing that elections in Guyana is an occasion, an acute moment of Guyana`s chronic ethnic problem, Freddie has located himself amongst those who through denial contribute to perpetuating the problem, rather than searching for solutions.
Visit COMMUNITIES-Guyana (www.communities-guyana.com)
Given the poor score sheet on Freddie`s credibility as an academic and journalist, he has lost all moral right to call on others to account for their truths.
Sherwood Lowe et al who during Hoyte`s period in Opposition campaigned for Power Sharing in the corridors of the PNC. It should also be recorded that during the post 97 constitution reform process, the PNC allowed its leaders to make independent submissions to the Constitution Reform Commission.
Outside of Kissoon’s ulterior motives for flogging this horse and for trying to diminish persons, an issue of some interest may lurk.
Ethnic voting is still dominant and in an electoral system based on plurality such as Guyana`s, it is likely to perpetuate ethnic dominance and all that Guyana has become. In fact, the 2020 election cycle, and more particular the post-election events, to date, support this contention. There is no question of being “ahistorical”, the more things have changed, the more they have remained reflective of the antagonistically stratified Guyana with the alignment of forces reflective of the plantation and colonial past that form the foundation of post-independence Guyana.
One, Kissoon is wrong to assume that Blackness (or Indianness) is, by definition or default, a consciousness that rejects or disrespects other ethnicities.
By Vincent Alexander On Tuesday, September 22, 2020 I wrote a letter, in which I made two salient points. First, I referred to the apparent blockade of my letters by Guyana Times, in particular. Second, I referred to the fabrication of a quotation by Guyana TimesEyewitness column in its attempt to malign, and negatively portray,…
I am proud to be of that descent, which birthed human kind, and a people whose foundational humanizing, civilizing and development of Guyana cannot be denied, notwithstanding the revisionism and ‘alternate facts’ about Guyana promoted by Infinity Foundation.