Part1
Introduction
There is a connecting thread to Guyana’s ongoing narrative of multiple unfolding crises, major economic contradictions, and threats of state violence against government critics. The many unfolding crises include prorogation and its aftermath, as well as constitutional, political, legal, governance (ranging through ideology – actors – agency and ethics) and even socio-cultural ones. The economic contradictions arise from poorly formulated development policies; as seen in1) the ongoing ‘fire sale’ of our national resources on the one hand, accompanied by huge tax-expenditures and tax-giveaways on the other; 2) a growing litany of wasteful, ill-conceived, and poorly-designed projects, accompanied with little or no satisfactory publicly available socio-economic appraisals of these; 3) the runaway subsidization of state enterprises at huge taxpayer cost, accompanied with no satisfactory publicly available appraisals of these enterprises; 4) boastful government claims of rapid real GDP growth (based on questionable statistics) accompanied with burgeoning inequality, poverty, marginalization, destitution, and the ever-spreading aura of squalor in public spaces.
The threats of state violence against government critics are found in the infamous taped conversation between
