In terms of “Independence Regrets”, I’m repeating sentiments I’ve had published elsewhere in this newspaper. That’s because in case they were missed, I feel they merit repetition for the “regulars” of this Friday feature.
Cheddi Jagan had no choice but to welcome Independence in May 1966. After all that objective was his life’s dedicated mission from 1947, then at the slain sugar workers grave site in 1948. (No doubt he also had some other plans and objectives for his post-independence (British) Guyana.)
The pre-1966 political events that played out in B. G. however put paid to Jagan’s ambitions and Frankly Speaking, engineered our continual distrust, lack of “cohesion”, our delayed development and perhaps even the diminution of our population (i.e. human capital and resources) to this day.
As a layman nationalist one had to regret
