Those claiming shock that Nikki Haley was calculatedly measured and excessively wordy in her refusal to say ‘Slavery’ must not have been paying attention.
She’s been nothing but an open...
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.
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.
A viable and robust Opposition will professionally hold the government accountable by matching action to policy and scrutinizing practice by law, without the remonstrative theatrics that embarrass more than construct.
Nepotism, cronyism, political mayhem and everything that makes Guyana a failed state is alive and well in national politics and is to be separated from its impending oil wealth – because soft invasions of the type that America’s IRI could be accused of focus on social collapse…
