Verian Mentis-Barker

Mitigating the loss of life is not a political position. It is a moral imperative that elected politicians must uphold.

Not sure that the Ruling Party being blindsided by the Opposition Leader’s meeting with the Secretary of State is some carefully crafted strategy that...

The solution to bad leadership isn’t silence and pretense. It’s to force better leadership by letting them know we won’t be shy about calling their administrative negligence...

And we’ll say again, we stand with every call for a clean voters list but to reduce that down to not voting is counterproductive to protest.

The list of ‘First Ever’ ...the new South Carolina passion is to be applauded ...But we won’t be distracted by it, won’t be diverted by it, won’t be led on an extended excursion of celebration by it

The politics of party grievance is not a national strategy. Winning strongholds is not an end onto itself.

The attempt to fix what is broken results in breaking an essential part of our economy. This is the paradox of uprooting a system of...

The intent to instill fear and trembling is demonstrated by a vice president in a 4th presidential term, citing issuance of a notice to vacate after 47 years of occupancy and a notice to reapply for tenancy simultaneously in a choreographed presentation, is a demonstration of the power they can exert over the people they’ve chosen to be their enemy.

We thought- given the history of budget inadequacy so profound that Guyana still sits in the lowest percentile of Western Hemisphere poverty- that the public servants tasked with 2023 Budget formation would have been unbudgingly invested in creating a budget for national benefit.

It’s budget time and we need more than an act…a person who seems to think deflecting inadequacies is a formula for his abundant failure. This performance might be good for Party rallies where people bond by being happy and hateful over the same political incidents. It’s a solidarity of shared animosities.

We’ve all paid the price for an ineffective Opposition, one that failed to establish a relationship as a constitutional entity of governance with the resident diplomatic community; one that lacks the acumen, the capacity, to present to the international bodies that support the alleged democracy of Guyana’s political rule, how much of the tenets of democratic living are violated as a matter of course.

It’s not even like they over promise. It’s more like they under work because they roll out the same failed plan of the last loss, add a few new catchwords then label it a new plan.

Opposition Leader is now just a label, a constitutional designation divorced from function because the holder of this title has spent more time away from his seat in Parliament, making the boycott his personal truancy because, like every truant, he seems not to have done his homework.