The recently completed Draft Strategic Plan for Social Cohesion in Guyana, 2017-2021 (SP) (http://www.motp.gov.gy/images/documents/draft_social_cohesion_strategis_plan_2017_2021.pdf), has given enhanced meaning to the notion of ‘missing the bus’! If not rectified in the final document, what could be an ideal opportunity to attempt something transformative will instead present us with the usual kind of platitudes. The literature review contained in the document suggests that this should not have occurred, but since no serious commitment was made to the establishment of an appropriate political framework, the promises contained in the plan are but banalities.
I believe we can all agree that a socially cohesive society is one in which there exist ‘a common vision and a sense of belonging for all communities; the diversity of people’s different