At the memorial for the late Robert Corbin, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo praised the willingness of Mr. Corbin to engage with the government of which he was then President and the Mr. Corbin’s firm defence of the interests of his party. The Vice President’s reflections ranged far and wide, but their most compelling aspect was the need for the PPP and PNCR to “change the old way of race-based political thinking and work together for their survival and the country.” He said: “… the future of Guyana would involve at some level and some fashion, whatever that framework may be, these parties working together. They have to, of necessity.” Hinting perhaps at the diminished state of the PNCR, Mr. Jagdeo said, “the PNC would have to decide its future in the context of the new world, its challenges, and how it would adjust its philosophy or thinking to be able to play its role in the new Guyana…Unless the PPP and the PNC change their old way of thinking, they will face extinction,” he warned.