Improving Public Accountability: The Guyana Experience 1985-2007 by Anand Goolsarran is an expert, in-depth analysis and discussion of many of the roiling governance issues that have existed for the last several decades, and which continue to bedevil local society.
Thankfully, it is a not too heavily represented group; there is an inner core consisting of public superstars, and there is robust support from a ragbag phalanx operating behind the deep cover of barricades, some official, some scummy.
It was the end of an ordinary day, when a most ordinary woman made a decision.
One family confronts the most painful of decisions. A national family circles in protective embrace.
The announcement of the formation of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) is a welcome development (‘Company formed to promote transparency, fight corruption’ SN, November 11).
In a recent press release, the WPA called for the resignation of two government ministers following three maternity related deaths.
It took a while, but now it is finally out in the open: the PPP government is running scared; the party is scared despite its built in majority, its facile bluster, and its utilization of state resources for suspect purposes.
“Wife of murdered Mercy Wings guard struggles to make ends meet” (SN, October 10).
There are some things wrong with this title. First, David most likely missed the bus; second, there is nothing that is going to be great about this election; and, third, it has already lost the intensity and energy of a respectable race.
Guyanese have witnessed a continuing exhibition of the cheap exercise of power by the government; it is raw, naked, and ugly.
Will it be the General Secretary or the Speaker of the House?
It is a remarkable irony that a very public undertaking with the potential to energize and empower is mired in a bog of controversy and sometimes slick, sometimes jagged representations.
An incendiary device destroys a motorcycle shop on Quamina Street; a business owner is executed on Water Street; four adults and a baby are shredded by automatic fire in Cummings Lodge.
This time the approach is stealthier. The government forgoes the blunt axe of direct advertisement deprivation.
Yes, it blows hot, it blows cold, and falls asleep at crucial times for embarrassing intervals.
There is a cauldron in the middle of the nation. Today, it is a brooding presence that simmers restlessly.
However the time is counted, the peoples of this land have never been truly free.
It took only eighteen years. After continuous denial, derision, and delay from the ruling party, two of its leading men grace the national stage to deliver confessions, with a third likely to hobble from among the goat herders to bow his head and admit to sins.
Amidst the flurry of activities focused on 2011, a few unpleasant truths grow clearer by the day.
Talk of coalitions and leaders has raged in Guyana for the past several weeks.
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