“When more than 90 per cent of young people can read and write and have a modicum of education, no traditional authoritarian regime will last for long.” (Emmanuel Todd – French Social Scientist)
“This will be a facebook election”. These are the words this writer keeps hearing time and time again. For anyone following the lead up to the General Elections the thing that separates or makes different this election from any other ever had in Guyana is the existence of the internet and the groupies who follow, religiously, every word however written. Amidst the LOL’s there is a discourse that is changing the nature of our traditional political landscape. Young people, bemoaned as apathetic, are voicing as loudly as they can type, their opinions. Are we listening?
There is a quiet revolution taking place within the midst of the noisy cacophony of political claptrap. It is as
