Time for plain talk

There can no longer be any serious debate about it: wherever we aim our gaze, the evidence is clearly before us now that Guyana must find a way to get off this fractured political path that has bedevilled us since independence. Our attempts to cut either Westminster or Republic systems to suit our cloth have been disastrous at virtually every turn, and have left us depleted by migration, crippled by political squabbling based on ethnicity, and beset with corruption both private and public.

Leave it to say that Guyana today, with all our oft professed natural resources and enormous potential,