On January 14, Mr Khemraj Ramjattan made a presentation in Trinidad and Tobago to the Congress of the People (COP) convention entitled “The Relevance of Third Parties in race based politics: Case of Guyana”, which, to me, was more telling in what it did not say rather than what it did. Mr Ramjattan had the opportunity to properly set the foundation that could have resulted in something important but failed to take it.

He began his presentation with the contention that the outcome of the recent election in Guyana provides good material for his topic, claiming that it is “abundantly clear that… third…..