Politically, Guyana is not so much a divided as a completely sundered country from end to end and from year to year it seems for evermore. If one side proposed motherhood and the other side homemade bread as good things – on both sides there would be doubts and suspicions and objections. It is very sad. Perhaps a new era of “coalition” politics will make a difference, but then again, perhaps not. Over the next few months we will see.
Last year I was asked to write a piece for the Chamber of Commerce magazine Business Guyana. I sought to find a national objective which might attract support not only in civil society as a whole but from all political parties. So I wrote what follows. I fear there is still likely to be controversy but it is the best I can do.
“Why not try our best to eliminate poverty in the next 20 years as the United Nations is urging the world to do? Guyana, joining in this