GUYANA

It was an event of superlatives. The Principles of Project Management were in operational splendor. It was not your typical vanity project that was preceded by...

It would preserve what’s left of the Party to demand that Congress is kept per its constitutional schedule

The Dominican Republic could own up to 51% of the refinery it builds for Guyana.

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...

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

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.

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.

The job of the Opposition is to check and balance...not for specific individuals, particular groups or decided causes but for the overall improvement of all resident Guyanese. 

Few things so embitter a community as squandered hope and Afro Guyanese have decades of spent hope under the current rulers of Government… as a consequence of chronic shortsightedness by their delegates.