Future Notes
‘The poverty of thought’
Every so often in letters to the editor, former prime minister Hamilton Green has been imploring the People’s Progressive Party...
Read moreDetails‘Teachers’ strike; strengthening equity’
In one way or another, the condition of the teaching profession impacts almost every home in Guyana both today and...
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‘Avoid polarised exclusionary politics’
The freedom of a people depends upon its vigilance in designing, establishing, reforming, and implementing governance arrangements to keep the...
Read moreDetails‘The Vice-President took teachers to Times Square.’
As we are about to embark on another round of constitutional reforms, the behaviour of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)...
Read moreDetails‘It’s time to strike.’
Worldwide, as social inequality escalates in liberal democracies, it has become widely accepted that independent trade unionism is essential in...
Read moreDetails‘Our president’s African award!’
This week I intended to comment on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) government’s behaviour towards the University of Guyana (UG)...
Read moreDetails‘Constitutional reform: don’t drop the ball again’
Having promised all and sundry to support constitutional reforms to establish inclusive governance, the PPP spent months trying to negate...
Read moreDetails‘Ravi Dev using Panday to stoke the ethnic fire’
The late Basdeo Panday, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, came to the funeral of Cheddi Jagan in 1997,...
Read moreDetails‘President Ali New Year’s Delusion’
In his New Year message, President Irfaan Ali claimed that ‘The future of Guyana is bright and promising. We have...
Read moreDetails‘Burke’s activism and an undesirable democracy’
According to the eminent political theorist, the late Samuel P Huntington, ‘Democracy (meaning open, free, and fair elections) is one...
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