Apart from some rudimentary commitments to rule better, from a political standpoint the PPP manifesto, Guyana Version 2.0, only promises more of the same and perhaps worse. As if attempting to blind-side us, the party spent a good proportion of its document reciting lofty economic intentions. Of course, it must have known that the impasse which brought us to these elections was not, per se, rooted in its economic and other desires but in the level of bad governance that is thought to surround them.
Furthermore, it is now well recognised that our governance difficulties are fundamentally rooted in constitutional arrangements that are unable to properly cope with existing conditions. At the macro level, the fundamental problem is that it was mistakenly written for the wrong audience.
It makes provisions to allow for it to be consistently reformed and as usual with constitutions, leaves the ultimate responsibility for seeing that this is done with the people. But, as these elections are demonstrating, Guyana is a land not of one but many peoples. This makes aggregating a critical mass of
