Introduction
This series of columns focuses on the strategic interactions among four groups divided up along class and ethnic lines. There is within group class differences – the PPP connected East Indian elites (EIEs) and East Indian masses (EIMs). And there are African Guyanese elites (those associated with the PNC) and African Guyanese masses (AGMs). It was argued in the previous column of February 6, 2013 that the factor underpinning the persistent ethnic conflict is the desire to control economic resources and opportunities by both elite groups.
In order to claim control of economic resources,