Future Notes
When democracy is bad
Before she died, Janet Jagan admitted that she was the one who had introduced Cheddi Jagan to communism by giving...
Read moreDetails‘Constitutional reform: the shared governance idea’
After decades of political turmoil which has left Guyana as ethnically divided as ever, it would be irresponsible to go...
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‘Father of which nation?’
I found the quarrel between the People’s Progressive party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC) over whether Cheddi Jagan...
Read moreDetails‘Political representation, race and racism’
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has now cloaked its decades-long attempt to establish political/ethnic domination in Guyana under a ‘One...
Read moreDetails“The WPA’s current ‘just’ cause”
When faced by autocracy/dictatorship, the WPA has always had a radical wing who believes that it is legitimate to remove...
Read moreDetails‘Constitutional reform: subsidiarity’
Today I will consider the broader subject of devolution, local democracy, etc. and suggest that although over the years much...
Read moreDetails‘Constitutional reform: dominance and representation’
Claiming that it was government’s property, a few days ago the Peoples’ Progressive Party administration cunningly dismantled the Peoples’ National...
Read moreDetails‘Constitutional reform: a consensual approach’
If they are going to be held properly accountable at some point in the constitutional reform process, the political leadership...
Read moreDetails‘Oligarchic political parties doing as they please’
In terms of the way Guyanese do politics, the pending process of constitutional reform could be positively transformative. Last week...
Read moreDetailsConstitutional reform: step one
Constitutional reform moved a stage further with the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act last November, and all stakeholders should...
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