Just how long the changed atmosphere in Guyana will last following the May 11 general elections and the removal of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration from office after twenty three years. Across much of Guyana there appeared to be a palpable sense of relief over the fact that Guyana had managed to achieve only its second substantive changing of the political guard since independence in 1966.
It would have been surprising if one or another of the two major political groupings that participated in the poll had not cried foul at the end of the process. The difference this time around, the PPP’s subsequent elections petition notwithstanding, was that international observers all certified the poll to be free and fair,
