Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change to submit a weekly column on governance and related matters. Only APNU has submitted a column this week.
The coalition administration that entered office in December 1964 after the People’s Progressive Party’s turbulent seven-year rule offered the majority of Guyanese the prospect of a satisfying relationship between state and citizen.
Most people then could have looked forward to adequate educational opportunities provided by the state, a comfortable standard of living, a degree of social protection through national insurance, stability in employment, a functional primary health care system and a low level of crime and disorder. The state,
