Opinion

With proper reforms disputed elections in Guyana can become history

Dear Editor. Based on ample international evidence, I do not share Ralph Ramkarran’s bleak pessimism in his recent article in Conversation Tree, titled “Biometrics are not permitted by the constitution or any other law”, where he lamented that election losers in Guyana (in his narrative, the PNCR alone) will engage in “an unending political dance over the electoral system based on nothing more than political calculations and posturing.”

Shortchanging high school students

As one examines the ever evolving culture of Guyanese society, the shortchanging of a well-rounded high school experience for students of the last two decades, unfortunately, glows brightly in the spotlight.

President Ali’s ‘fore day morning’ summons

The sense one gets from President Irfaan Ali’s recent 5:30 am meeting with Ministers and some senior Public Servants is that he seeking to send a message that there are mechanisms within aspects of the government’s machinery that are, at the least, creaking at the hinges, and that he is seeking to send a boisterous message to those state functionaries of his unhappiness with the performances of some key institutions of government and that he is seeking significant changes in the modus operandi of those aspects of the operational side of the governance process.

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