The Trinidad Express and Trinidad and Tobago Newsday newspapers yesterday both voiced concern about the political impasse in Guyana.
“The Guyanese leaders must realise they are on a slippery slope, and they need to press a reset button for the conduct of their government and politics,” the Express said in its editorial, “Guyana must beware of that slippery slope.”
According to the editorial, President Donald Ramotar’s suspension of the National Assembly, forestalling a no-confidence vote by the opposition against his minority administration, has allowed “breathing space” for the government to function “without a terminal threat of collapse hanging over its head.”
However, it warns that should this extension be stretched to its legal limit under Guyana’s constitution,
