Verian Mentis-Barker

The headlines in this newspaper that is never too under-joyed to report something against the Coalition give a fair sense of overall politics. Lately,...

And this would be a good point at which to tell the Madame Ambssador that Guyana’s ‘regime’ was removed by a free and fair election in 2015 that gave us a Granger ‘government’ and that her country’s absence during the tumult of the 23 years of that regime’s existence begs many a question of their current intent, particularly in the wake of our country’s newly found oil and the taste for that commodity by her country’s conservative… regime??

Its intent is to remain first amongst unequals by its overall might that it uses to enforce its right.

We’d like Madame Ambassador to know that our issue is hardly with the oath she swore to and though she frames her letter 'Why We...

What is it about Guyana that makes the International Community think that it has the right to determine who governs the governed?

We will walk on the principle you have campaigned on, the elimination of nepotism and curry favor that remains cankerous in Governments. We will walk behind your pledge to take Guyana to its Zenith always carving a path for our children to walk behind us.

Maybe if we start here we’ll understand where Yesu is coming from. He was born in 1928 just 10 years after Cheddi, so he...

The one way to ascertain the writer’s intent is to focus on the impact of the things he says he’s not.It’s the use of...

The appearance of objectivity and impartiality by International Observers are the elements that lend legitimacy, make the whole external observation law a function of fair elections and a measure of transparency that is welcome by members in the electorate looking for that truth and honesty when it comes to the casting of their votes.

In the State which ranks 44th out of 50 States in Education, it is easy to see how transient Politicians would patch together a Campaign from some past template, especially when they are guaranteed cover in the form of endorsements from politicians who once bled blue.

Of the 50 years the country existed as a Cooperative republic 23 consecutive years saw it governed purely for access to its treasury through a series of Accounting and Auditing frauds. The image of endemic corruption and wholesale banditry that follows the country was earned under the Jagdeo and PPP Administration. A Coalition Government will fix that.

We expect a higher level of campaigning, one that rises above the overdone wine downs and the tantalize and the hints at raunchiness. Campaigns are events at which politicians solicit the vote not expect it; which would require them to make a substantial case to both their base and to others who may be won over.

Granted, almost anything can happen in a year but a bountiful harvest of political disservice is not politics as usual, not when it straddles appeasing Venezuela and the vicious attacks on Afro Guyanese that are normally hidden because of shame and discretion.

Is it really civic blasphemy to expect the full disclosure and democracy that was promised and not feel taken by the uncomplicated level of obfuscation that’s insulting both to supporters rights and intelligence?