This the first entry in a series on the current state of civil society in Guyana.
Veteran trade unionist Lincoln Lewis believes that many civil society organisations are failing to hold the PPP/C-led government accountable on its governance of the country—a situation that he believes is due to divisions sown by politics and race.
“We, as civil society, have to hold government accountable but we don’t want to do that. We want to be nice to them and therein lies the problem with civil society organisations,” Lewis told Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.