When the late President Hoyte facilitated the return of a relatively free Press – the Stabroek News and the freeing up of the importation of newsprint – and the re-importation of flour and other banned or restricted consumer items, legacies of the rigid Burnham policies, most of the country could breathe again and demonstrated gratitude to Hugh Dessie.
However there were a few in the vocal Opposition minority (?) or majority, who asked an important question: should we be thankful to a leader who, for political reasons, merely re-introduced items and freedoms taken away from the nation by his own late leader and party? “You’re giving to us what we had and