Formal institutions alone will not bring about national unity

National unity cannot be achieved via formal institutions alone, according to University of Guyana lecturer, Dr Thomas Singh who suggested that Guyanese are not inclined to work together.

The law cannot change behaviour, he told a packed meeting at the  Hotel Tower on Friday evening during a symposium organised by the WPA to mark the 33rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr Walter Rodney. He said that national unity is not about formal institutions and mechanisms such as governance, power-sharing, legislation, regulatory agencies, constitutional commissions or electoral mechanisms.

The law cannot change behaviour especially when it is inconsistent with