As reported in Kiskadee Watch on Friday last, differences within the PPP have exploded in a public spat over the Ukraine war. The PPP has historically developed positions on most important internal and external issues. The discussions would create platforms for disparate views to be aired internally in confidential debates. Once a position is arrived […]

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 […]

Without context, the victory of the PPP at the last general elections was a landslide. Within the context of elections in Guyana, where the PPP has gained over or close to 50 percent of the votes in all general elections since 1992, and in the past five years the economy has grown exponentially, creating high […]

Prior to the September 1 elections, it appeared that the PPP and PNCR were forever destined to be considered as ethnic parties because they obtained their support largely from the two major ethnic groups that make up the Guyana population. The size of the these groups, when considered against the political support generally received by […]