Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. The PPP/C has declined the offer. Only APNU has submitted a column this week.
Donald Ramotar’s mother reportedly gave him good advice when she told him that “you cannot have it in cake and have it in bake.” That the lesson has clearly been lost on her son is no fault of Mrs Ramotar; her offspring who today holds the exalted office of President of the Republic, behaves like an absent-minded and forgetful child.
Donald Ramotar wishes to wield the enormous powers that inhere in the Presidency. These powers and privileges are derived from the Constitution but, at the same time,