The Alliance For Change (AFC) would be writing the Board of the Natural Resources Fund (NRF) to get answers about government’s failure to say specifically how oil revenues would be spent by the government, party leader Nigel Hughes said Sunday. “The Citizens of Guyana demand to know how their patrimony is being managed and disposed of,” he said. No date ...
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OPINION: Dr Randy Persaud replies to Nigel Hughes
By Dr Randy Persaud Last week I posed fifteen questions to AFC leader Nigel Hughes. Not unexpectedly, Mr. Hughes offered up a reply that must have shocked the conscience of the nation. Instead of clarity and truth, Mr. Hughes chose to offer glittering generalities and dodgy maneuvers, but no substance. He lost an opportunity hatched in good intent, to bring ...
Read More »OPINION: Nigel Hughes—rising to the moment, then fading
By GHK Lall Many Guyanese believe that Mr. Nigel Hughes, prominent Attorney-at-Law, has a spark that can flare into something positive for this country. He could inspire jaded local voters, move them to think that he represents something different. I continue to think so, but have my conditions. Mr. Hughes cannot be run-of-the mill, the ‘same ole, same ole’, that ...
Read More »OPINION: Where is the AFC plan?
By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus There have been recent calls for a consensus-based national development plan. In my view, two versions of consensus warrant attention in the current conjuncture. The first, which I shall call constructive consensus, is based on exchange of substantive ideas that yield positive and measurable outcomes. This form of consensus involves balanced contributions from all ...
Read More »OPINION: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born & The Guyana Man
By Dr Randy Persaud Recently, I took cognizance of GHK Lall’s ‘existential subjectivity’. This was a fancy way of speaking about the fantastic elasticity St. Gabriel takes with facts, with reality, and with the truth. You have seen the ways he bends the facts, twists and turns them, manipulates them, all in the name of achieving a level of textual ...
Read More »OPINION: Bharrat Jagdeo running scared, even running mad – PART II
By GHK Lall In this continuation of yesterday’s contribution on Bharrat Jagdeo’s reaction to Nigel Hughes’ ascendancy to leadership in a major opposition party, the focus is limited to two issues: conflict of interest and interests. Jagdeo has driven himself into a frenzy about Nigel Hughes’ seeming conflict of interest in his professional (legal) relationship with Exxon. Interesting! This is ...
Read More »OPINION: Ali, Jagdeo, Norton, Hughes – Guyana’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
By GHK Lall From the pages of the Holy Bible, we got the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The names given to them and now etched in hearts all over are Conquest, War, Famine, Death. From the sacred soil of this Motherland, Guyana, I give my fellow Guyanese, the Four Horsemen of Oil. The names I give them represent the ...
Read More »Nigel Hughes lays down conditions for accepting nomination for AFC Leader, consensus opposition presidential candidacy
Former Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) and well-known Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes on Wednesday stopped short of saying he would accept nomination to become his party’s leader, and said much would depend on getting key commitments “on a set of principles” at his party’s conference slated for June 29. Hughes and former AFC General Secretary David Patterson were each ...
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