Andy Burnham is due to take over as Prime Minister of Great Britain during next week from the hapless Keir Starmer, who rode to 10 Downing Street on the radical agenda of Jeremy Corbin’s Labour Party, then promptly ditched it, having first helped to raid Corbin out of the leadership. In the 2024 general elections, […]
Author Archives: Ralph Ramkarran
From the Conversation Tree The disclosure by Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, of a farm located in the Linden-Soesdyke area and owned by President Irfaan Ali, has been the subject of much comment. The size of the farm, the infrastructure, the wide variety of agricultural activities and modern practices would suggest that it is […]
Tradition in politics and governance in most developed political systems dictates that when a person is appointed to a position by political preference, that person is expected to resign when the appointor or recommender leaves office. This, of course, applies only to particular categories of offices such as ministers of government, members of boards and […]
The Property Tax Act in Guyana was passed in 1962 as part of the budget proposals of that year on which Nicolas Kaldor, a moderate social democratic Cambridge University economist, had advised. The proposals were the most revolutionary of the era, described as a genuine attempt to solve Guyana’s economic problems, but violently opposed by […]
It has been difficult to write about the US/Israeli war against Iran because events have been moving so fast that before an article can be published new assessments become necessary. The pause in the fighting since February 28 took place last Wednesday, April 8, in what has been described as a two-week truce after a remarkable series of […]
