Let rank and file members choose presidential candidate
Dear Editor, The People Progressive Party (PPP) should do what UNC did in Trinidad – go to its membership to choose a presidential candidate. By doing this, the party will debunk the misconceived notion that it is dictatorial and run by a small band of self serving people. Should the party go this route it [...]
The LCDS consultations exposed as a charade
Dear Editor, On the issue of Indigenous leaders voicing concerns about LCDS and REDD+, I commend their boldness, albeit coming at a late time. I do accept that their voices are probably very late in coming because of the fear of recrimination and harassment that the PPP/C government has become known for unleashing against its [...]
CATCHING THE SPIRITS
I have always known that spirits come in bottles and I have had my share of them in my time. More than once upon that time, like “Drink and Drunk” in Sparrow’s Calypso “Drunk and Disorderly”, I would spirit away spirituous liquors with almost spiritual fervor. But ghosts? Sometimes when one is in high spirits [...]
The Ideology of Development
In the latest Presidential Sweepstakes, the entrants are already being demanded their “development plans” that would solve Guyana’s myriad problems. Such thinking is based on what the ex-World Bank economist William Easterly criticises as “the ideology of Development”. A few years ago, he made the following pungent argument about “Developmentalism” that critiques the premise of [...]
