Once high hopes for the David Granger administration have dissipated after a year in office, with various members of civil society expressing disappointment at the government’s performance, saying it has embraced the system it once criticised and the expected transformation has not been delivered.
“The government has begun to use the same system that it was fighting against when it was in opposition,” said Troy Thomas, the head of local transparency body, Transparency Institute of Guyana (TIGI). In a series of interviews with Stabroek News, other members of civil society expressed similar sentiments saying that much more was expected, the performance of the government is “disappointing” and it is showing signs of disconnect from the populace.
“In their public interactions and in their statements, they’re not sufficiently different from the last government. They certainly are not as different as they suggested they would be when they were campaigning,” rights activist Karen de Souza told Stabroek News. “Much was expected of this government. They certainly raised lots of hopes and I would say they have ended up disappointing a lot of those hopes that were focused on them,” she added. “There are some positions that the
