Future Notes
‘The Parliamentary Opposition in context’
Walter Bagehot, the nineteenth century English journalist, claimed that the British parliament was no more than a talk-shop of idle...
Read moreDetails‘Political lessons from Venezuela’
Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had ‘captured’ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife and flown...
Read moreDetailsPalestine, Israel and the Search for a Just Endgame
Future notes’ is not intended to dwell inordinately upon the past but to try and scope better futures from existing...
Read moreDetails‘Democracy, poverty and vote-buying’
Vote-buying is the offer of financial or other material inducements to voters by candidates or political parties during an election...
Read moreDetails“There is no ‘We’”
It is simply amazing that the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has been busy rewarding itself when its primary achievement over...
Read moreDetailsGuyana’s Long Crisis Shows the Urgent Need for an Independent Peace Facilitator
‘I believe there’s no such thing as a conflict that can’t be ended. They’re created and sustained by human beings....
Read moreDetails‘Thanks President Ali’
It must be the case that the president of Guyana has come to believe his own propaganda, for his behaviour...
Read moreDetails‘Guyana’s autocratic decline’
I am yet to come upon a reputable socio/political index that has presented the People’s Progressive Party’s (PPP) government in...
Read moreDetailsEthnic Divisions and Self-Interest Stall Democracy in Guyana
‘The central premise of the team’s approach to this exercise was that the broader context of consensus and inclusion are...
Read moreDetailsFrom Affirmative Action to Ethnic Advantage – How the PPP Shifted Course
Not long into the term of the 1992 People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government, President Cheddi Jagan was concerned that Guyanese...
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