Future Notes

This week I intended to comment on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government’s behaviour towards the University of Guyana (UG)...

Having promised all and sundry to support constitutional reforms to establish inclusive governance, the PPP spent months trying to negate...

The late Basdeo Panday, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, came to the funeral of Cheddi Jagan in 1997,...

In his New Year message, President Irfaan Ali claimed that ‘The future of Guyana is bright and promising. We have...

According to the eminent political theorist, the late Samuel P Huntington, ‘Democracy (meaning open, free, and fair elections) is one...

‘Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them...

Guyana is an autocratic state: there is no separation of powers – an ethnic political party controls the executive and the parliament and as a result has significant...

‘Guyana whose rich feet are mines of gold. Whose forehead knocked against the roof of stars. Stands on her tip-toes...

Unlike Dr. Vishnu Bisram, Dr. Randy Persaud was genuinely attempting to end his critique (‘Dr. Henry Jeffrey has it wrong...

Perhaps the following is the most destructive document in Guyanese history. This occurred to me when last week I came...