Future Notes

A referendum is a majoritarian instrument that is generally unsuitable for use in ethnically divided societies such as Guyana. Recently,...

This presentation is largely the outcome of two related recent events. A few weeks ago, I received a podcast in...

The suddenness with which the regime decided to make a $200,000 cash grant to all Guyanese households and with which...

When I was requested to critique the presenters of the Burnham Foundation’s Elvin McDavid Symposium on ‘How can an Electoral...

In ‘Suriname graduated: Guyana failed’ (VV 15/09/2024. KN 16/09/2024) I reported that according to V-Democracy, the world’s most comprehensive democracy...

Friday I commented on presentations made at the Forbes Burnham Foundation’s Elvin McDavid Memorial Symposium 2024 ‘How can an Electoral...

This column has many times drawn attention to the fact that constitution making or remaking is not for amateurs, and...

“The vast majority of Latin Americans (86%) live in electoral democracies such as Argentina and Brazil, and 4% live in...

With constitutional reform in the air, we must be prepared to be presented with all manner of diversions, particularly by...

Last week in the ‘The roots of Jagan’s National Patriotic Front’ (VV: 25/08/2024. KN: 26/08/2024), I argued that notwithstanding the...