In the darkness of disagreement, CARICOM’s helpful intervention in trying to resolve the general elections process at the request of both President Granger and Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, was a ray of light. All Guyana should have welcomed it, as most Guyanese did. It is a wholly legitimate role of community that must not be smothered under any pretext whatever. ...
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OPINION: Mr President, please call off the Dogs of War
by Major General (Ret’d) Joseph Singh I respectfully pen this open letter to you via the media in the hope that you will realise the national importance I have attached to taking this step. I am placing my neck on the line that you are being manipulated by persons who do not have the best interests of our beloved Guyana ...
Read More »OPINION: I call upon President Granger to change course, to lead from the front
by GHK Lall I refer to the caption, “Mottley says, ‘it is clear that there are forces that do not want to see the votes recounted’” (SN March 18). I think all right-thinking Guyana should applaud the Honorable Mia Mottley for stepping forward to share her thoughts and speak her mind. That her message comes across clearly and unambiguously, despite ...
Read More »OPINION: Appeal to president: do not charge ahead to catastrophe
By GHK Lall With each new development and every passing hour, it seems that we are heading down the slipperiest of slopes through counting down to some form of national catastrophe. The international arbiters have begun to depart from us, as our own senses signal that they, too, have left us. I submit this because of the following reasons. From ...
Read More »OPINION: Return to election of direct representatives
by Surendra Dhanpaul The recently-concluded election in Guyana has drawn attention from almost every corner of the world. However, the fundamental problem of racism does not seem to get the attention it deserves. Racism in Guyana is dormant and resurrects every election cycle. It is a social problem that plagues, not only Guyana, but the world. In this opinion column, ...
Read More »OPINION: I am yet to see something, a result, in which I can believe, what I could support
by GHK Lall I watch and wonder as results come and results go, amidst the ongoing rages and willful blindness of a society that has succeeded in tearing itself apart at every joint, and limb by limb. I absorb repeated court decisions and repeated additions that lead nowhere, other than further down into the pits of this purgatory in which ...
Read More »OPINION: Whoever wins this election, all of Guyana loses; a call for a government of national unity
By Moses Bhagwan and Eusi Kwayana We write as two Guyanese who have come out of the leadership of both major parties, who have lived through the violence of the 1960s, and who have been following with deep sadness and alarm the news of the outbreak of conflict following a mainly peaceful electoral campaign and voting process in our beloved ...
Read More »OPINION: Accept results of verifiable count to close gap between horror and hope
By Nigel Westmaas Guyana’s national election was held on Monday, March 2. We are now more than a week away from that date and there is still no declaration of a ‘winner’. The elections were held under conditions of decades and decades’ long ethnic and racial division and suspicion of the other. The confusion that descended on the country in ...
Read More »OPINION: Local leaders must engage and most urgently: this is our problem
By GHK Lall The High Court will meet again on Tuesday, then what? It will rule shortly after on a way forward, then what? I can say this with utter confidence: it is inevitable that one group would feel vindicated and triumphant, while the other would think that it has been denied and delayed. If that was the end of ...
Read More »OPINION: Reach across the political divide
by Retired Major General Joseph Singh I hold no brief for any political party but am interested in working, like many others, towards achieving an outcome from the current 2020 Elections challenges, that may not satisfy everyone but which at the very least, complies with the Rule of Law and the Guyana Constitution, and one which is respectful of basic ...
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