Guyana is a politically abnormal country and any attempt to analyse or administer it using only the normal tools/institutions of international political life is doomed to failure! As the failures have stacked up during the various political regimes, the political elite have become more cunning rather than clever. Instead of seeking solutions to properly manage this distinctiveness, all kinds of machinations are concocted to tell the masses that great progress is being made when all anyone needs to do to see through such claims is glance at the drains in front of their houses. The fact that notwithstanding the deprivation that is literally right under our noses, so many people are still willing to stick with essentially the same traditional political elites is the most visible demonstration of our unfortunate uniqueness.
The negative results of our distinctiveness are so all-encompassing that they are being experienced in the
