Political Analysis

Things haven’t gotten off to such a good start between the two opposition parties of whom much is expected in the New Parliament.

With the entire Republic looking forward with bated breath to the first sitting of the National Assembly, one has to wonder as to the reason why – at least according to President Ramotar – APNU has called for the postponement of the summoning of the august body.

A month has passed since the National Elections and people are already asking whether B.J.

After the results of the November 28 General Elections were announced, re-instated Prime Minister Samuel Hinds was heard to say that the PPP/C would have much preferred to secure that extra seat that would have given it control of the National Assembly but that it is prepared to work with the two opposition political parties who control that single seat majority to ensure that we are able to run the country without having all hell break loose every time Parliament is convened.

Who won and who lost the November 28 elections depends on how you look at it.

It might be very much premature to suggest that the opposition parliamentary majority has fallen at the first hurdle but it certainly appears as though they have hit that hurdle……HARD.

Of all the holdovers from the Jagdeo Administration, Roger Luncheon is perhaps the most notable.

Rumours are rife about all that is happening with the changing of the ministerial guard at the various government ministries.

Everybody says Mr. Ramotar is no Bharrat Jagdeo. That is true in several senses.

President Donald’s new Cabinet has been a revelation. He has shocked some of us into silence.

If the Home Affairs High Command did not give the go ahead for the police to fire rubber bullets at protestors during what we are told was an illegal if peaceful post-elections protest then just who did  becomes an interesting question.

Different things come to different people’s minds when they think about the 2011 general elections.

In much the same way that there are winners and losers at general elections, so too there are winners and losers among those individuals who get a piece of the political pie.

GECOM has given itself a pass mark for its conduct of the national and regional elections.

Now that the elections are done and dusted the Guyana electorate has, for the first time in our history, presented the political ‘bosses’ with a genuine headache.

What’s this we’re hearing about the Private Sector Commission setting up an Operations Centre to help maintain peace and order during the elections period.

Quite why the political parties bother to go the trouble and cost of compiling, printing and distributing bound documents which they call manifestos is a mystery.

The PPP/C, declared APNU Prime Ministerial candidate Rupert Roopnaraine in Buxton, ought to be cited for trafficking in persons.

No one who has been following the scrapping between the government and the opposition political parties on the matter of campaign access to NCN can pretend to be surprised by the fact that the “highly anticipated” live presidential debate did not come off anyway.

Donald Ramotar has been saying at Bartica that the leaders of the political opposition have “no moral right” to hold public office in Guyana.