AFC pioneers breakthrough politics in 2006

by Emile Mervin
Barring some future findings of skullduggery, last Monday’s elections results indicated Guyanese, especially of Indian and African extractions, defied logic yet again and voted race.
They unhesitatingly attached more importance to the symbol of ethnic affiliation than to the substance of economic achievement of the past five years, because it is obvious that neither [...]

A Message to All Guyanese at Home Voting

by Emile Mervin
After a traumatic, hair-raising five-year ordeal at the hands of merciless killers, an inept and uncaring government, and brief uncertainty over the staging of this year’s elections, it has finally come down to this for Guyanese voters: YOUR VOTE – YOUR FUTURE!
I joined many in the Diaspora for some time now analyzing and [...]

There is chicanery and unevenness in campaigning and coverage

by Keith R. Williams
Since the political campaign to dictate the next five years of Guyana politics got underway, one could not help but observe the blatant unevenness, double standards, and downright chicanery that has become the order of the day.
Unevenness and double standards in terms of what the PPP is allowed to get away with, [...]

We are a nation divided by inconvenient truths

by Keith R. Williams
Some have labeled the beginning of this political campaign to determine the entity to lead Guyana into its first hosting of a major international sports event as “the silly season”.
And if the entire situation and its attendant historical and futuristic appendages were not fraught with trepidation and foreboding, that would certainly have [...]