The sweeping victory of the Democratic Party in the US mid-term elections has created waves among the political class. It is not unprecedented for the minority party to capture control of both House and Senate. Republicans took control of both House and Senate from the Democrats in 1994 and Democrats repeated the process against the […]
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It was known since 1950 by the youthful PPP leaders that only a united political movement can dislodge the colonial forces which were in control of British Guiana. Thus, they created a PPP uniting anti-colonial forces from all strata of society but most importantly from the two main ethnic groups. The same colonial forces destroyed […]
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 […]
I have posted two articles in the past calling for the confirmation of the acting appointments of the Chancellor and Chief Justice. That was a time when the Government did not favour the holder of at least one of the acting appointees. I was in good company. In an earlier era, when the acting appointees […]
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 […]
