Gov’t has to collaborate more effectively to ease divisions – GHRA

Citing the polarising effect on society from government decisions, the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) yesterday called on the APNU+AFC administration to make a more concerted effort to build effective coalitions to mitigate the divisions that have arisen

Saying that the intentions of the coalition Government as articulated by President David Granger to create a more secure, fairer and inclusive society are laudable, the GHRA said that realizing them in the context of the most racially-polarised elections in Guyanese history is a distant prospect.

It then cited what it said was poor political decision-making which has led to polarisation.  It said that salary increases for Ministers was the most glaring example, the “ill-considered Anti-Terrorism Act the most recent, and the