-proposes greater powers for regions
Former St. Vincent Prime Minister, Sir James Mitchell says racial tensions here cry out for redress and urged a distribution of power away from the centre.
His comments came during the Desmond Hoyte Memo-rial Lecture which he gave at the Grand Savannah Suite at the Le Meridien Pegasus Hotel on Friday afternoon. Sir James, a long-serving prime minister, had played a role in Caricom’s eventual push for fair elections here under Hoyte’s presidency.
In his lecture entitled ‘Restructuring the Guyana Stage’, Sir James posited that the question in this regard is how far the regional responsibility and devolution should go without fracturing the country.
