propaganda press! state sponsored, people powered.

the glen lall: In what must be considered one of the most vicious attacks on another Caricom leader since the birth of Carifta, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding made a devastating critique on one of his Caricom colleagues, using the plural to avoid specificities.

It is clear to a majority of political observers and commentators that Mr. Golding had Guyana’s President in mind when he lashed out at “some” Caricom leaders who go begging the international community all the time.

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Kaieteur News: A group from the Diaspora in the early nineties, called the Jaguar Committee for Democracy, posited the existence of the Indian Ethnic Security Dilemma (IESD).

Since that time, this explanation of one aspect of the political sociology of Guyana has been preserved and promulgated by a small group of East Indian activists.

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Countless number of persons in this world since civilization began have argued about what is morally right and morally wrong.

Since those times almost two thousand years ago that probably began with Socrates, right up to this moment in time, morality’s definition is still proving elusive. Whether fortunately or unfortunately, Mr. Errol Arthur in the United States has discovered what is right and what is wrong in terms of the ethical foundation of human conduct and applied his format to me. Read the rest of this entry »

DEAR EDITOR,
I don’t know who is Errol Arthur and I don’t want to know based on the racist terminologies that this man writes on a discussion forum that is based in New York and kept alive by a group of awfully racist human beings.

If there is someone by that name, he should tell us who he is, where he works and lives so we can verify that this is his real name.

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Kaieteur News: It was the way the Government tossed aside every inch of political and administrative decency and bullied the University community on three identical occasions.
It was the use of power on three occasions over one particular issue that I believe Mr. Burnham would never have done.
I say from the bosom of my heart, the third occasion of that appointment (again I stress it is not the person involved) has shown me most clearly that this government has no redemptive features and is going to cause major harm to this country.

lucy cockcroft steered clear of the cock and bull in this piece here. needless to say it is lovely and deserving of our embrace.

Telegraph: Around 3,000 people were sent documents to say they had been listed as originally from Guyana, in South America, on the electoral roll.
The mistake, which happened as the files were being updated, affected people whose nationality had previously been listed as “unknown” on the records.
When new computer software was brought in to help modernise the system, it refused to acknowledge the word “unknown” and automatically changed it to “Guyanese”.

Kaieteur News: As Carifesta goes into its final day, the fear will grow that after its completion, there will be a hardening of the autocratic instinct.

This has been the pattern since Cricket World Cup 2007. After each major international event, one detects a chauvinistic, arrogant dismissal of any type of accommodating politics from the Office of the President.
The President met with the combined opposition in November 2006.

Cricket World Cup followed three months after and it took a massacre at Lusignan in January 2008 before the President officially met with national stakeholders together in one meeting.

After the Rio Summit and the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference, a series of attitudinal displays from the Government took the country further down the path of dictatorship.

One can therefore expect post-Carifesta political bullying. Armed with the success of the event, the illusions and delusions of grandeur will no doubt impact on policy-making.

One suspects with the reconvening of Parliament, Bills will be rushed through with contemptuous disregard for the views of the opposition members.

No doubt the Commissioner of Police will be confirmed. After Carifesta, elected dictatorship will march on.

the dictator president of Guyana bharrat jagdeo has a way about him, he looooves to wine up and get on bad wid he lawless.self. which might be the only thing i respect him for, he’s never pretended to be descent, moral or above the gutter. hes never attempted to hide his lawless debauch’d side and for that we should all feel a sense of national pride cause if some lil girl lookin fuh somethin to wine up pon, she can always count on the commander in chief.

the action was part of a last minute action packed nite put on by the folks at the Caricom Secretariat on middle street. they blocked off middle from main to carmichael and brought in plenty rum, a set and a Guyanese wanna.be Jamaican dj to keep the crowd going.

In the meantime, with humungous rises in food prices, Caricom countries have showed no interest in Guyana’s offer of allocation of Guyana’s vast land space to alleviate the problem. While both skilled and untrained workers from Guyana are turned away from the airports of Barbados and Trinidad, the latter wants to import labour from India to work on its farms. Guyana’s grinding poverty and falling educational institutions are sending hundreds to the region in search of a better life. For the Caribbean, the Guyana nightmare never went away.

The first observation is that out of forty central committee members (forget the five that cannot vote; they are central committee members nevertheless) only six are African Guyanese – (the number indicates the place they brought): Luncheon (6), Rohee (11), Collymore (12), Westford (26), Belgrave (27), Edwards (very last)

Multi-racial image was the first loser. The central committee is the highest forum of the PPP. It is the leadership of that party. After more than sixty years in existence, only 15 percent of that core is made up of African Guyanese.

Freddie Kissoon column - Elected dictatorship and mockery

Two mockeries have descended on the land of Guyana within one day. On the same day that President Jagdeo announced that the acting Head of CANU would be dismissed because he failed a lie detector test, PM Hinds stated that Guyana may not be ready for the Freedom of Information Act.
These two decisions are not only characteristic of the dictatorial cloth that the Government has wrapped itself in since the 2001 elections, but within each emanation there is the taste of mockery and asininity.

Let us deal with the acting head of CANU first. One wonders if President Jagdeo was not ashamed to say “acting,” because his government has reduced this nation to the ugly infamy where a large number of sensitive appointments within the pubic sector are in the acting mode. Read the rest of this entry »

In Guyana one can clearly see the connection between social dishevelment and visionless, lackluster, uninspiring and jejune leadership. When leadership is driven by nationalist instincts, then progress is inevitable. What it means is that rulers are motivated by love of country.

Sadly in Guyana, the way our party system evolved, power instincts took the place of nationalist pride and it has been like that since the PPP and PNC split in the fifties. Read the rest of this entry »