Political sketch: Raphael Trotman

Raphael Trotman

Up to the time that this issue of the Guyana Review was published, Raphael Trotman was still the only named Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2011 General Elections
A friend Raphael Trotman’s remarked recently that he felt that while the law was his profession politics was his “real calling.”
The commentator was quick to add that the remark was not intended to call Mr. Trotman’s competence as an Attorney into question, but rather, to make the point that a case could be made for suggesting that he may well be the most thoughtful and enlightened Guyanese politician of his generation.
There is a feeling that that Trotman could not survive within the People’s National Congress/Reform and that his departure