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Last Saturday, 21st March 2020, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) made a statement to the press that suggests that after seven decades at the helm of politics and government in Guyana, it has learnt very little.

There are three supreme organs of democratic power in Guyana: The Parliament which is made up of the President and the National Assembly; the President; and the Cabinet.

The Caribbean is about to experience a crisis of a kind that no one in the region or anywhere else in the world could have predicted.

By the International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

I am not sufficiently convinced that the results of the Region 4 elections as declared by the GECOM RO last Thursday (March 5th) accurately reflect the results recorded on the various statements of poll collected from the 879 polling stations…I have a difficulty accepting that all the persons and organizations who have so far deemed the process to lack credibility have somehow gotten it wrong…If our election results are as widely rejected as they appear likely to be, then there can be no winners.

Thoughts about the end of the world have troubled my mind over the last couple of weeks.

In the wake of our still unraveling political crisis, the peace of mind we’ve been struggling to retain is now being threatened by the increasing danger of the world’s most recent pandemic.

– What? His Excellency see, hears us all? Hoping to be brief but politically pointed today.

Funny the things you remember, because try as you must, sometimes you just cannot forget.

A friend of mine told me that I was out of touch with the national mood: ‘people voted and they want to know who won’.

In normal times a sudden drop in the price of oil would elicit a collective sigh of relief among Caribbean governments and Central Bankers.

By Hans-Werner Sinn MUNICH – The fight against COVID-19 is a full-on war.

Even though a statute puts power in the hands of a Returning Officer, that Returning Officer will understand that he holds in his hands the future and stability of Guyana as we go forward, because every vote must be made to count.

By Moses Bhagwan If our statement that called for the establishment of a Government of National Unity, carries the implication that we stand in the way of the democratic process, then we may be guilty of misrepresenting ourselves.

Our elections are always an interesting period to observe. The fear, mistrust and misinformation that usually festers unnoticed has the tendency to run amok in times such as these.

– living, coping with any unliked government Hello there, I wanted to discuss the PPP’s Madam Teixeira’s comments related to how His Excellency’s state watches and hears all of us, as well as a short piece on bandits and thugs as political protesters.

Days ago, the Berbice reggae artiste, “Mystic” released an online video of a Bartica pastor re-singing his 2019 hit single, “Live Like We At De Cricket.” 

It has recently taken another life and I will not lift the smallest finger to help to prolong the present winner-takes-all political system of governance, matters not who will rule!

By Moses Bhagwan and Eusi Kwayana We write as two Guyanese who have come out of the leadership of both major parties, who have lived through the violence of the 1960s, and who have been following with deep sadness and alarm the news of the outbreak of conflict following a mainly peaceful electoral campaign and voting process in our beloved country.

Two weeks ago, Caribbean Heads of Government passed a resolution critical of US policy towards Cuba.