Christmas under the coalition

Well, well, well, do you realise that this December’s Christmas Season is the first one that young Guyanese, twenty three years and young, will spend not under a PPP government?

President Hoyte “presided” over Christmas 1991. Hoyte was then persuaded by certain Western nations between Christmas 1991 and mid-1992 to allow “normal” fair elections and we Guyanese had Cheddi for Christmas ’92.

The same nations indicated in many ways that the Jagdeo-Ramotar version of PPP government should help Guyana liberate itself from them. By a slim margin a coalesced political grouping dominated by some “new-faces” PNC won the May 2015 vote and we were presented – or presented ourselves – with a