Clock is ticking on solutions for unity

Dr. David Hinds

Time is running out on the gains made from last year’s elections, according to historian Dr. David Hinds, who warns that the lack of progress on political and racial unity could lead to a situation where people take things into their own hands.

Hinds, the feature speaker at the Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture, held at the Demerara Mutual building on Robb Street on Friday evening, said that if within six months a dent is not made in the current situation or things do not move beyond what is happening in the National Assembly, “we may come to a situation where people take things in their own hands.”

Hinds spoke on the theme, ‘The Walter Rodney Legacy: The Tasks for Political and Racial Unity’ and he traced the