by GHK Lall Members of Guyana’s indigenous community came to Georgetown for their own power convention and ended up at a PPP Congress. The Toshaos may have thought that this was going to be their 2024 summit meeting, a version of their state in the state, only for matters quickly to deteriorate to the usual. That is, the usual ruling ...
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OPINION: The Dharamlall affair: trusting Jagdeo, issuing invitations re Congress
by GHK Lall I will do something dangerous: give PPP General Secretary and Guyana’s all-purpose Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo the benefit of the doubt. I do so, despite being made to regret wasting my trust more often than I can count. Jagdeo said that the PPP Congress was not rigged for certain people to do as well as they did, ...
Read More »OPINION: The PNC’s 28 years while in office are solid: Jagdeo needs to look elsewhere for fiction
by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best In a next opinion I will deal with Jagdeo, Ali and the PPP’s lies about the PNC being a racist party – a classical projection of a duo who thinks about race all the time. As promised, I will now address Jagdeo and the PPP’s fixation with the PNC’s performance while in office ...
Read More »OPINION: PPP Congress – the good, the better, the best
By GHK Lall So, what really came out of the PPP [C] Congress? Truth be told, plenty. Let’s turn back the clock and see. To spice up things and keep the delegates excited, there was one inspiring leader singing an inspiring song. Down with Marxism! Out with Leninism! Look, I know it is not the Mighty Sparrow of the Mighty ...
Read More »Low vote-getters elevated to PPP’s key decision-making body
At least four low vote-getters at the People’s Progressive Party’s congress held last weekend, who mustered sufficient support to elect them to the broader Central Committee, were Tuesday elevated to that political organisation’s third highest decision-making body, the Executive Committee. The four elected by the Central Committee to sit on the 15-member Executive Committee are Dr Vindhya Persaud, ranked 21st, ...
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