We are still in our Jubilee Year though the ceremonies and celebrations put together to mark the 50th Anniversary of Guyana’s independence have passed and gone without matching the hype and hoopla that had been attached to the buildup to the event.
Whether or not the milestone found us with a great deal to celebrate will probably be debated by the writers, mostly historians, who, hopefully, will at least record the occasion for posterity. At least, some might venture, we managed, over those years, to hold ourselves together as a nation-state, with some effort, some might say, given the historical division of race and the ebb and flow of the attendant national tensions. Still, when account is taken of the fractious condition of international
