Future Notes
‘As President Ali’s requested: Part 3’
Only power-sharing can deliver ‘One Guyana’ I was amazed that a Stabroek News editorial (03/03/2022), related to the one that...
Read moreDetails‘At President Ali’s request: Part 2’
The PPP/C is out of control because it could be! Last week I quoted a Stabroek News editorial stating that...
Read moreDetails‘At President Ali’s request’
In his recent Republic Day message, President Irfaan Ali called upon Guyanese to eschew ‘simplistic propagandist theorizing to achieve self-serving...
Read moreDetails‘The winner-takes-all mentality’
‘The central premise of the team’s approach to this exercise was that the broader context of consensus and inclusion are...
Read moreDetails‘Suriname’s Budget Debate takes 3 months’
After some 15 days of inconsequential discussions, Budget 2022 has just exited the National Assembly more-or-less exactly as it entered!...
Read moreDetails‘The PPP’s Budget’
‘The national budget is a document that authorises the government to raise revenues, incur debts and effect expenditures in order...
Read moreDetails‘Encouraging extra-parliamentary responses’
It would not be difficult to find other examples of the democratic worthlessness of Guyana’s parliament, but the disruption that...
Read moreDetails“The nonsense about ‘swing votes’”
Ethnic voting is prevalent in Guyana and two weeks ago I said that East Indians are 39.8% of Guyana’s population,...
Read moreDetails‘PNC: between a rock and a hard place’
The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and a largely governance team recently visited Guyana to have discussions with the government, opposition,...
Read moreDetails‘Election Reform Group’s valiant effort’
‘1. Winner-take-all A major underlying source of instability in the Guyana electoral system is a winner-take-all character that heightens ethnic...
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