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The Cunning of Reason
Every schoolboy knows that a week is a long time in politics – but we often fail to reflect on the truth in this truism.
Let’s keep talking about democracy
We have no physical space where citizens can meet to discuss and debate the issues of the day, preferably in an atmosphere of mutual respect and civility, to help build a national consensus.
Seven billion and counting
Next Monday, October 31, will be a red letter day in the world.
Gaddafi’s end
It seemed almost inevitable that once Colonel Gaddafi went on the run from Tripoli, with the fighters of the National Transitional Council in hot pursuit, that his death would be next on the agenda of his pursuers.
Interior security
If we can never afford to ignore the external threat to Guyana’s territorial integrity, the immediate and pressing issue as far as interior security is concerned has to do with an internal threat rather than an external one.
International Day to End Impunity
Following a conference in Beirut earlier this year the International Freedom of Expression Exchange – a network of human rights and free speech groups with representatives on all five continents — declared November 23 the International Day to End Impunity.
The PPP campaign and the media
The crudeness of the current PPP/C efforts to appeal to voters has set a very low bar for campaigning.
We need a narrative
At this stage in the elections season the focus is, quite properly, on the potential candidates for government.
The quality of our democracy
We have just over a month to go until our fifth election since President Desmond Hoyte ushered in the current phase of our democratic process in 1992, by not only holding the nation’s first free and fair elections since 1964 but also recognising the result.
‘What can you do for me?’
The courtship drama that plays out every five years in Guyana is in full swing.
The US and Caribbean political delinquency
For most of this year, the United States has been visibly in pursuit not only of persons in the Caribbean allegedly involved in drug trafficking, but in so doing, the authorities seem to have been seeking to ensure that those perceived to be involved in behaviour deemed unacceptable, do not received the protection of Caribbean governments.
Men like Ralph Turpin
Nothing that we have read or heard about Mr.
The failure of telecoms reforms
On September 22, 2011, the government mysteriously decided against proceeding with two bills to liberalise the telecommunications sector: The Telecom-munications Bill, 2011 and the Public Utilities Commission (Amendment) Bill.
MMU report
Gecom’s Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) performed an important service before, during and after the 2006 elections, and has been resuscitated again for the purpose of the 2011 elections.
This is what democracy looks like
Every election in the Caribbean produces broad, often uncritical assertions about democracy, usually with the implicit assumption that those hymning the loudest praises are best placed to lead the country beyond the miserable, hidebound ideological fixity of its incumbents.