In early 1990, Cheddi Jagan walked up the steps of the University of Guyana Social Science building, came to the dean’s office and requested that I agree to join the PPP/C slate for the elections that were due later that year. The elections were postponed until 1992, but over the intervening period, and particularly during the election campaign throughout the length and breadth of Guyana, we “cursed” the PNC and Desmond Hoyte. I was not the only UG employee to do this: others included the present Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, the former Minister of Education,
