Unfortunately, we cannot cherry-pick the vicissitudes of fortune. Thus, when the PPP came to government in 1992, it inherited both Desmond Hoyte’s Economic Recovery Programme (ERP) and the industrial relations environment it had helped to create to obstruct the ERP’s establishment.
I have argued in this series that when solutions are not found to social problems they tend to fester and recur from time to time in costly ways. The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), with which the PPP/C had to deal in 1992, was essentially established in the Burnham era and periodically had its
