Gail Teixeira is quickly disqualifying herself as the point of contact for the engagement between the PPP Government and the APNU-AFC opposition. She cannot be publicly asserting the PNCR Leader is rude, as if he is her subordinate, and still expect to engage him.
by JK McALLISTER. The fact that President Elect Joe Biden scored a decisive victory in the US Presidential Elections is beyond dispute. President-elect Biden secured 306 electoral votes to President Trump’s 232, and he won the popular vote by over 6 million. No President in history had secured more votes that President-elect Biden. Congratulations have…
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.
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.
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.