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The election process finally concluded last Sunday with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic being declared the winner.

The world according to Buxtonian David One could easily imagine – and/or appreciate – the “tons” of commentaries, since Sunday, in print and “on air”, surrounding the emergence of the Irfaan Ali Presidency.

The abrupt conclusion of Guyana’s prolonged election crisis evolved swiftly last Sunday, with the swearing in of the ninth Executive President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, 40, the country’s first Muslim Head of State.

On the day the elections results were declared, many Guyanese breathed a sigh of relief.

Here we go again, a change from one ethnic government to the next, and we expect better results when, by its very nature,  such a transfer of power does not have the potential to deliver national unity and equitable social progress. 

Whether it chooses to take sides or not, the Caribbean is about to find itself swept up into the now almost inevitable superpower confrontation between the United States and China. 

The Granger administration and its allies continue to defy the will of the Guyanese people by refusing to accept the vote count.

By Melanie J. Newton Melanie J. Newton is an Associate Professor of History and the former Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto.

Black Lives Matter murals were painted this week on streets in Berbice, Bartica and Georgetown.

As true slips of the tongue, it was hardly along the lines of the American politician, who resigned following evidence of tax evasion, or like the quip about dictatorship from the 43rd President who gave the world “Bushisms.”

Tomorrow we celebrate the end of chattel slavery, the day our ancestors were emancipated from an inhumane system that should have never existed.

– My usual three Emancipation “mischiefs” Wonder what did yesterday come up with?

On my assessment, given its legal context, President David Granger’s statement that he will accept nothing less than the counting of the broadly defined ‘valid votes’ of the March 2020 elections to arrive at a winner threatens to take the elections quarrel to another constitutional/unconstitutional level.

A week ago, the government of The Bahamas took an unprecedented decision.

In democracy, leaders step aside when they are voted out of office.

Caught between binaries, barred by anti-Asian exclusion laws, did some West Indians of Indian origin claim Blackness in early 20th-century America?

The demonization of religious and spiritual practices has a long history.

Appreciating PNC mind-control successes Of course friends, I would expect no sympathy for my self-imposed dilemma.

The idea of reparations for the atrocities committed during the transatlantic slave trade is often a hotly contested idea.

More than 140 days after Guyana’s elections, the losing regime and its disingenuous leader remain defiantly in power, with yet another brazen legal attempt underway to thwart democracy and further delay the formal declaration of the winner.