Dear Editor,
The PNCR has a history of trying to gain political power through the back door and creating camouflages to conceal their weakened political status. The latest example of this chicanery is their usage of a dossier with the aid of some acolytes to support their degenerative line of thinking, at the same time offending the intelligence of the Guyanese people.
With regard to the dossier, there are several unanswered questions, including, given the disjointed pieces of allegations, what is the joint opposition attempting to say? Again, given these incoherent allegations, how can we be sure of the accuracy of the meanings the dossier presented? The data seem defective, and if this is the case, then the analysis is weak and unconvincing. More importantly, however, why did the joint opposition produce this dossier? Are they unable to mobilize the masses, given their constant allegations of economic decline in Guyana?
Some studies show that economic crises would generate political unrest, as popular dissatisfaction emanating from falling living standards surely would facilitate the opposition to mobilize popular discontent and push for political demands. Also, new coalitions of the opposition groups could emerge, to mobilize popular economic discontent and initiate political change. Scholars like Bates, Eckstein, Stokes, Buendia and others, share these viewpoints and suggest that economic crises augment the probability of political instability and institutional reform. But the Guyana opposition groups seem unable to mobilize the masses in the face of their allegations of economic decline.
Lust-Okar in an article in Comparative Politics, presented the instructive cases of Morocco and Jordan which challenged this hypothesis that the more there is economic decline, the more the chance of political instability. Since the 1980s, both countries experienced economic deterioration and augmented discontent, but Morocco’s opposition failed to mobilize the masses. A possible explanation for this is that when elites in society do not engage in dividing the opposition, then there is a strong probability of the opposition mobilizing political unrest during an economic decline. However, if the opposition has divided camps, indicating that the elites earned a measure of success, then mobilization will not happen. Could it be the case in Guyana that the PNCR as well as its acolytes are divided via elite manoeuvrings? We already know that the PNCR continues to experience deep divisions and that that party already owns a rapidly-weakened status.
Further, Morocco’s opposition support structure, such as unions for mass mobilization waned, causing the mainstream opposition to refrain from any mass mobilization engagement – not because of unwillingness to do so, but because of declining capability. But there also is evidence that Morocco’s opposition had capability, but chose to stay ‘cool’; perhaps, according to Lust-Okar, the opposition elites had no problems with their political gains, and did not want to risk the chance of losing them in any attempt at mass mobilization.
We already are aware of the PNCR’s divided camps and its weakened status, and so the PNCR would seem unable to effect any mass mobilization, given this substandard disposition. But could the failure of the PNCR and its acolytes to rouse the masses be happening also because there is no economic decline and no popular discontent? Look at some recent economic matters.
The Guyana economy continues to demonstrate resilience against several recent external shocks. Think about two such shocks: rising global food and fuel prices and the international financial meltdown; these shocks failed to compromise the integrity of the Guyana economy.
And in terms of rising food and fuel prices, just over a year ago, the Jagdeo administration moved in a timely way to cushion the economy with a number of ameliorative measures, and the Bank of Guyana did indicate in the heat of the international financial meltdown not long ago that the Guyana economy had negligible investments in the US investment market – not much of an impact here.
And now President Jagdeo is lighting up the global stage with his Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), taking it shortly to the Copenhagen Summit, bringing immense prestige to Guyana’s international economic image, especially as Guyana’s economy is out of the woods, even factoring in the external shocks and the precarious nature of the global economy.
And so, let the people decide, why the dossier? The dossier may be a remarkable camouflage for the opposition’s failings to mobilize the people vis-à-vis the hypothesis: economic decline produces political instability and institutional reform. The people are not buying the line that there is economic decline; the opposition, therefore, chooses the ‘dossier’ route. Jordan is still on my radar.
Yours faithfully,
Prem Misir
Prem Misir, I have worked for the PPP and know your tactics. You, Sir have no credibility outside the realm of the PPP soup drinkers.
This is the kind of minds we have brainwashing our students at the University of Guyana.
Yea well let’s give Prem a chance. He still thinks that anyone believes a word of what he propoghapdize…is that a word at all?
Who cares? Not even Prem could tell truth from make-belief anymore. I’d be sad if I had any respect for this man from the start but I never did. He was a sqaure peg in a round hole then and he continues to be.
Wake Prem. The people with a discriminating mind know what is happening in Guyana. Unfortunately, the majority of people in Guyana are like sheep, they follow rather than think.
Am I reading the right letter. I hope sn did not make a mistake?
Misir must be told that a person life is more important than any development. Maybe this culture condones the illegal killing of people and stealing from the state so he cannot see anything wrong.
it also condones the FLEEING OF THE COOP…FRAGMENTS IN ALL DIRECTIONS.This lot is getting gittery because their dirty laundry is being exposed.They are doing their best to prevent transpiracy and escape accountability.Their SWEET LIVES are comming to an end and that scares the SH++ Out of them.WHA DUZ SWEET A GOAT MOUT DUZ HUT Ë BELLY
1. You guys have no shame! The dossier contains murders that have never been resolved by official investigations during the Jagdeo presidency. There are hundreds of people who died and not one coroner’s inquest, not one criminal probe leading to arrests, charges, trials, convictions and sentencing. Guyana is a cowboy country with a bunch of cows and boys running around the pasture!
2. “And now President Jagdeo is lighting up the global stage with his Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS), taking it shortly to the Copenhagen Summit…”
THAT’S A LIE! LCDS is about bringing in money from wealthy countries to Guyana and not about reducing carbon emissions, because this carbon emissions problem is not linked to Guyana but to industrilized nations. Jagdeo is the only person, indeed world leader, who is ASKING FOR MONEY while others are asking for a reduction in carbon emissions. There is a difference in focus here, so take your propaganda, Prem, and shove it!
By the way, Prem, when the Britsh responded to Jagdeo’s request for help in reforming the police force and the British set up certain stipulations for financial assistance to this end, why did your government balk and say the British are looking to compromise Guyana’s sovereignty?
Guyana is seking the financial help of wealthy nations for LCDS and these nations will only respond if their stipulations are met? How is that not compromising Guyana’s sovereignty? Don’t tell us about the British wanting to fire live ammunition near hinterland communities, because they did engage in such an exercise but without live ammunition.
Government officials are aware of the last conspiracy by the forces which assisted the burnham political machine in toppling the jagan government so they were not about to make the same mistake with security again . Once bitten twice shy.
LCDS initiatives get to know about the future carbon economy that is superceding the much vaunted information age and you will recognise the necessity of this enterprise. Take the money and the developed nations owns your country lock stock and barrel.
The “GREAT SON OF GOD”IS INSIDE PEEPING OUT the ada wan “FLEE THE COOP” so the money has to come from some where.
I hope Prem and Randy have their US passports updated cause this is their lifeboat when the big ship sinks!
Of course they will. The old story of rats and sinking ships
I hope the find a chair when the music stops!
Prem.
Reading your very learned piece and having a reasonable knowledge of the situation in Guyana. I am convinced the Mr. Jagdeo is making Obama’s recession initiatives look like child’s play.
Therefore I am planning to pen a request to the Nobel Committee from Mr. President to be awarded a prize in either one or all these areas.
1. For his outstanding works in Physics…..creating a parallel universe in Guyana, from which you are obviously writing.
2. Noble Prize for Medicine….for successfully cloning you and a number of highly educated loyal subjects, who have invented a logic (guess you need a prize too), that can only impress a man from Mars, without internet access or has never smelled the roses of the Garden City.
3. And one for Economics…..for explaining how everything is improving, the country developing, while the people (even his supporters) are suffering and literally defining the old saying “any port for a storm”. Imagine I met some of my brothers at the Piarco Airport migrating to Montserrat. Guess they loved Volcanoes!!!!
Keep up the good works.
Ha Ha – nice one Davo
Davo do not forget to reserve one for the grave site of the great LFB. because LSD was in style(the hippie time) while he was reigning and Guyana was not infested regardless of all the starvation and long lines and choke and robs.These soup drinkers who keep drinking from a dent-up,flakey,holey cup got dem wite ladie in dem nose,in dem pipe an dem mussie even gat dem in de cup-a-soup an also usin it as milk-powda fu dem tea an coffee. Dem miss Rajha,Datram and de race-car driva so much. JOPP stick together! help will come do not be dispondent
Davo, you should write a book. I would laugh and cry aloud reading it.
You’re good at this!
Moderator, you have to figure out a way that would allow bloggers a five minute grace period to go back and edit their blogs before the system locks them out. Anyway, in light of what I posted earlier, here is an extracted portion of a news item from another source (KN) and confirms my charge that all Jagdeo is seeing is MONEY, whereas others are seeing cuts to carbon emissions. This is especially for Prem!
(KN) “Head of State Bharrat Jagdeo told regional and international media operatives yesterday during an impromptu press briefing that the stakeholders in the mitigation and adaptation against climate change should not be distracted by the proposed US$10B but must remain focused on the bigger picture, namely the close to US$300B that is required.
“According to Jagdeo, he was confident that the MONEY will be forthcoming, but the donors must ensure and develop a new way of disbursing the FUNDS so that it could be HANDED OUT QUICKLY.
“He did stress, however, that it must be acknowledged that while the MONEY is useful, it is in nowhere close to the vicinity of what is required to effectively achieve the required goals.”
Dandy Andy many read but do not understand,according to the highlights many do not understand that there is an enormous change in fundings and monetary hand-outs where CONDISITIONS and PRICE-TAGS are attached with an extended piece of BAIT on a BIGGGG! BIGGG HOOOOOOOOK for dem BIG SHARK TO SWOLLOW!IT
Nice propaganda piece Misir,only the fool would buy this.
This is an excellent analysis by Dr Prem Misir. Having failed to convince Guyanese the PPP is mismanaging the economy, the PNC is promoting that faulty dossier as its Bible to convert unbelievers to the party’s fold. In the end Robert Corbin and the other opposition guys will look like a noisy group of Jordanites at the busy Stabroek Market square shouting at the wind.
C’mon Yasuman ! The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Mr. Misir has to realize that the ‘Bible’ is in the hands of the international community and, he merely writes a letter to the Editor of SN complaining of the main opposition party. As if…. Well, what do you expect from a small’d’.
yasuman, Misir not talking about the USA he talking about Guyana. Wake up! you dreaming.
Buddy, No one can convince your “unbelievers” that the sky is blue if F-House told them it was brown.
I like the term though. “Unbelievers”. Look out for it on the hustings in 2011.
Prem Misir and Randy Persaud are failures just like Jagdeo and his administration…MIS-manage the economy while he is an ECONOMIS…MIS-inturpite DEMOCRACY, MIS-communicate, MIS-lead the nation and now the even MIS in BRAIN-WASHING the bloggers..they are doctors who can’t even WASH-BRAIN…seeing that they have made so many MISSERS they should HONESTLY join us towards the DEVELOPEMENT and PROGERSS to DEMOCRACY…Tante might find them a PEER-HA if there is no chair when the music stops
Speak for your self Mr. Misir! And your contribution to this nation is what?
Colin2Nice. Contribution?Taxes. Helps to pay for a better life for you.
This chap probably has the interior of his house covered with mirrors. He is an official mirror man.