This strategy must have two aims: (i) to ensure a free and fair elections based on a new voters list of residents, tighter polling station procedures, and other such systemic measures on registration, voting, counting, and recounting
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This strategy must have two aims: (i) to ensure a free and fair elections based on a new voters list of residents, tighter polling station procedures, and other such systemic measures on registration, voting, counting, and recounting
Bernell Wickham, in his letter to SN on 28 March (“NDC must rescue Mahaica Community Centre”), calls for, in his words, a comprehensive plan for the beneficial use of the building as part of a wider effort to improve the lives and living conditions of the residents of the community. He adds that a rescued…
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.
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Outside of Kissoon’s ulterior motives for flogging this horse and for trying to diminish persons, an issue of some interest may lurk.
One, Kissoon is wrong to assume that Blackness (or Indianness) is, by definition or default, a consciousness that rejects or disrespects other ethnicities.
As an indicator, the spewing of hate speech on social media deserves attention. That persons can use the forum to incite racial hostility cannot be over-emphasized. The extent, however, to which hate speech on social media actually reflects race relations or oneness in Guyana requires a deeper analysis.
APNU must become the country’s strongest public protector and complaints authority against government abuse and misrule.
The process will not identify an election winner until extremely late or only at its very end. The coalition must not wait that long for the truth to be revealed.
THE LOWDOWN: by Sherwood Lowe
From its composed management of the COVID pandemic to the long-term policy statements from a few key ministers, this is a government adopting a second-term posture, concerned only with the true size of its parliamentary majority.