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Belonging to an organisation carries rights and responsibilities. It brings benefits but imposes duties. A person would normally form a desire to join an organisation for a variety of reasons in the expectation that certain rights or benefits will accrue. The person will no doubt then examine the rules of the organisation to determine whether […]

Arriving for the GB20 Summit in Toronto, Canada, President Christina Fernandez of Argentina warned against policies of austerity. AThe focus is absolutely wrong she said. The President explained that policies of cutting deficits and removing stimulus in the midst of a recession were responsible for an Aimplosion in Argentina resulting in a US$100 billion default […]

The electoral victory of the People’s Partnership in Trinidad and Tobago, the subject of much recent comment in our press, has highlighted the issue of alliance politics which was pioneered by the PPP in Guyana. The success of the People’s Partnership was based on this creative alliance, decisive leadership and hard work. The failures of […]

There is no doubt that Guyana has made tremendous progress in every area of life in the years since 1992 when the PPP/C was first elected to office. Most people, including me, believe that in some, or even many, areas more could have been done, or things could have been done differently. But this does […]

Guyana is still officially named “The Co-operative Republic of Guyana.” The name was devised at the time when Guyana discovered its own path to socialism – through co-operatives. Thus Guyana’s theory of co-operative socialism was reflected in its name. The spectacular collapse of “co-operative socialism” and the co-operative movement led to the complete abandonment of […]