Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. The PPP/C has declined the offer. Only APNU has submitted a column this week.
The Stabroek News, beginning in early May 2014, featured daily on its front page, comments relating to the dire need to have the long-overdue local government elections (LGE). The comment on October 5, 2014 reads: “The only stakeholder not ready for local government elections is the PPP/C gov’t.”
The identical one appears on the following day. The statement, while by no means incorrect, perhaps unwittingly obscures the dual roles of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic – PPP/C – which is both a political party and one that currently forms the government. In the former capacity, it is a ‘stakeholder’; in case of the latter, however, it has a constitutional obligation to
