Oh Skont Dem nah win yet but already looking for excuse to expel Moses.  Laad Ah Mercy

Nobody is more important than Guyana itself. I don't believe that anyone has the God given right to expect to be in the government, except the person elected as president as defined by the constitution. Under a coalition government there is going to be some bartering about which party gets its man or woman in the different ministerial posts. But is the selection and make up of the government decided by the president, or the prime minister? I haven't looked it up in the Constitution.

All ministers including the prime minister are appointed by the President and serve at His Excellency's pleasure.

HEHEHE Moses already on the hit list. God help guyana.

"J" as in Jim Jones.....before yuh start Vomiting your racial Poison from yuh stomach why don't you educate yuh self with arrangements in place to deal with the Distribution of Seats in the AFC- APNU Alliance.

http://www.caribnewsdesk.com/n...entative-of-the-list

A well-placed source explained that Lutchman would be the “custodian” of the list, while the politicians would determine the candidates to sit in the National Assembly.

“He would be given names signed off by both parties.

Thereafter, if a vacancy arises then the respective party will fill it in and the Representative (of the List) would ensure fairness and that the party that lost the seat maintains the right to fill it,” the source told Demerara Waves Online News.

Yes, The PPP fellows here need to tone done the "Dutty Indian" language.  That's disrespectful to Guyanese Indians.  For those Indians who want to work with the APNU, it's their choice and right.  That's no more "dutty" for those Indians who want to continue supporting kleptocracy.

Vanessa can be a regional person if she is retained.  Granger is trying to keep the hotheads and militants in check so as to moderate the party and that is good. They need to keep Corbin, Bond, Norton, and the old guard hidden and off the campaign trail.  It's bad strategy to keep them in the limelight.

i hope our Indian lobby are pleased with the number of Indians at the Essequibo Rally. That should give the PPP some sleepless nights.

I know, keep them out during the campaign then bring them out after they win to AGAIN enslave Guyanese, practice their usual undemocratic, barbaric Policies.  A great Plan indeed.

Please understand something.  The PNC isnt the PPP.  One cannot just side line hot heads.  In fact the best way for the hot heads to be boiling hot it to ignore them.  We saw what happened after the last PNC Congress.

The PNC isnt the top down party that the PPP is. Because Burnham is no longer around and none of those who followed him exert the control that he was able to.

Granger (and Nagamootoo) will have to deal with the "hotheads" within the PNC, just as Granger needs to stop his complex about Hughes.  In fact if he wants to prevent Mark B from being a trouble maker he needs to unleash Hughes to speak to the young black youth.  They will sooner listen to him than they will to Granger. 

Rumors are that Hughes isnt allowed to speak in front of "certain" crowds because Granger is afraid that Hughes upstages him.

Knowing Burnham it is the president.  I think that each party will select from their own lists, AFC with their 12, and APNU the rest.

Having said that of Granger is being high handed, excluding those who he "THINKS" are his enemies, its a bad idea.  Solomon/Kissoon could have easily carried their vendetta against him into the election. For the good of the PNC they held off.  Granger has to make some concessions for this, or I will expect trouble.

The PNC is DEAD if Linden decides to go their own way.

Don't listen to the dividers.  Hughes spoke at the Essequibo rally.

When you are trying to build racial and national unity, you want moderate heads to prevail, while listening to the hotheads.

Rev left an indelible impression on yuji.

yuji is hoping fervently for Rev's return.

Am I wrong, yuji?

Encore!!

It is me who used the term "Dutty Indian" borrowed from a previous poster who also use "Dutty Indian" to describe traitorous Indians or poke eating coolie that scavenge from the rare end of the African tribesmen.

Our ground rules should prohibit this kind of uncivil discourse.

The more the PPP harps about race and race and Burnham the more determined the population is becoming to vote coalition.

The people are utterly fed up with hearing nonsense about Burnham they cannot relate to this PPP fantasy........

Burnham is the only card of fear that they have.  if you can't inspire, use fear tactics.

Tried it last time; they became a minority govt.

More of the same this time, they will become the Opposition. 

Vote them in, vote them out.

Actually "Dutty Indian" is a sanctified version of the original term "N*gg*r Indian" which was bandied about here.

We should not allow such pejorative terms to be used in this forum. Some people seem to exist just to hurl racial expletives and abuse.

That's precisely what some people say about you when they think that you are cavorting too much with Afro Guyanese.

People have the right to cavort with all peoples, regardless of racial preferences.

It's a multicultural world and extremely racist to say Indians should not work with Blacks.  in normal times in Guyana, all races work together in the marketplace, in the taxis, in the state services, hospitals, etc.

For the PPP to say Moses is selling out Indians should be good reason why we should vote out those losers.

"Congo", Yuji? Really?! Do you need to wrap your racism in subtle dog-whistles?

JB, I think you should consult with your mamoo.

To all those paid for posting racist messages, how would you like your co-workers and neighbors to know your real, true sentiments that you make here about Black people and Indian people?

In the USA, those sentiments would constitute "hate crimes" not free speech.

You must live real miserable lives to post such racist rants all day.

Even the PPP, as moribund as they are, would be embarrassed at the statements some of you post here.

The PPP tells its members what to do.

Doesn't work with the PNC.  Solomon, Kissoon and others will stay quiet FOR NOW.   They will not if APNU AFC wins.  Do you want to see more scenes like the last PNC Congress, gun shot and all.  Or later when Lindeners made Grainger flee!

I don't think that Granger wants to see Linden revolting against him.  They did so under Burnham, and, as he says, he is no Burnham.

Why?  Every time the PPP display this behavior they lose a few more votes from fence sitters.  Let them continue to scream about "dutty Indians crawling up to PNC Congo men".

Why is Congo racist?  Its a region in Africa, and substantial numbers of Guyanese trace their origins to this area.

What is interesting is why "Congo" becomes a racist epithet in the eyes of the PPP.  If I called them "Bihar" is that racist?

yuji will have a plaster for this Congo sore too. The last time when I asked him why he called APNU a nationalist party he said PNC = People's National Congress. This time he may bring up something like congo drum. For some PPPites here even a traditional Afro-Guyanese dance like queh-queh is racist.

My honorable friend yuji22 is a wordplay expert.

Caribny, if you do not understand why use of "Congo" in yugee's context is racist, then i suggest u take a refresher course on the subject

i'll give a tutorial later

Keep churning this up, it will help the kleptos.

You remind people why we need to expel the PPP/K.

To racist scumbag yugi, he is using it in a negative context but as we all all aware, he is an ass and he cannot be blamed for that, it's probably something to do with in breeding.

Let them push the race card, is more the young East indians jumpign ship into the APNU+AFC.

They love Moses words and Granger dance.

It's called blowback.

PPP thinks we are back in the 1960s.

The new Guyana transcends race, and the Coalition will be a breath of fresh air.

Awee gon see laff one week befo May 11. When dem Freedumb House bai realize dat dem race campaign driving away people, it gon be too late fo dem switch tactics. Dem nah larn nuttn fram Essequibo. Hold on tight.

I'm surprised Caribny did not pick up on that one. If he were Surinames and he was called Juka he would see no insult in that. If he were in the South and was called a guabba he would not feel insulted. If he walked into a rural village in Guyana and they called him a capar he would not feel insulted. He has to show his intelligence about Congo the geographical and anthropological concept, but misses its raw racial reference in the lexicon of Guyanese Indians. Why, oh why, does Caribny feel that a sophomoric battle of wits is morte important than the truth?!

You need to gain pride in your African heritage.  Yuji thinks he is insulting me by using the term "Congo".  He isn't. All he reveals is that he is racist because he thinks that something is wrong with some one having Congolese ancestry.

Now if you think that something is wrong with Congo, and then a ancestry DNA test tied you to that region, what would you think of yourself?

Djukas are a sub group among the Suriname Maroons aren't they?  So if some one uses the term Djuka as an insult it reveals on of two things. 

If they are Creole they suffer deep self hatred about their African heritage, which many Creoles do by the way (see how they go out of their way to dig out what is often obscure Euro ancestry to ensure that they aren't mistaken for a Maroon). 

If they aren't black then they display racism.

If I call you a "Muslim" am I insulting you? Note that for many people to be called "Muslim" is an insult.  Obama can tell you all about that.

I see that loads of people ate displaying a high level of disregard for Africa and Africans here.  Its a pity that they are so brainwashed by the white man.

BTW Maroons are the fastest growing group in Suriname now.  The 2012 census shows them ahead of Creoles in numbers, and closing in on Indians (22% vs. 27%).

So I must sob because some Indians are proving how racist they are.

No they are doing me a favor because when I raise the issue of Indian racism towards blacks I am called a racist, and you are among those who have accused me of this.

So next time I talk about Indian racism towards blacks, just remember these bigots who think that they can denigrate a major region in West Central Africa and the LARGEST SOURCE of slaves into the Americas. 

Congo is a region.  It is NOT an insult!

Understand something Kari.  40% of the ancestry of blacks in the Americas comes from the Congo/Angola regions.  It is likely that most of us have some of this, even if in minute amounts.   CONGO was the LARGEST SOURCE of slaves brought directly to Guyana, followed by Ghana.

So should I view the word "Congo" as an insult by some descendant of peasants who didn't know that they should use a latrine before they encountered black people in Guyana, and instead use the bushes? And God knows what they used to wipe themselves. 

I don't think so.

And because a silly self hating man, who worships whites, so has absorbed all their bigotry towards blacks thinks that "Congo" is an insult I must be insulted.

No the issue is that yuji connects every thing African in a negative light, because his WHITE GODS told him so. So he thinks that to be connected to Africa is to be negative.

The issue isn't that Congo is an insult.  The issue that yuji, cobra, and the PPP in general think that it is.  These guys aren't bright and so repeat like sheep every thing that FreeDUMB House tells them to.  And that includes denigrating the African heritage of Afro Guyanese.

But you know what is funny.  Yuji and the other bigots, by virtue of being Guyanese (or will they say that they aren't Guyanese, but Indian) have absorbed elements of African culture.  Creolese is an Africanized form of English!

Well the congo drum is a core part of Afro Guyanese music so why wouldn't they think that kwe kwe is an insult.

Queh queh is nice.  We had sponsored this Guyana Forum and our Afro brothers and sisters performed that delightful dance.

Many years ago, 1989 or thereabouts, Moses Nagamootoo invited me to accompany him to a queh-queh ceremony about 12 houselots east of his home in Sophia. The real thing. I suppose the Afro-Guyanese in that street considered Moses a brother, for we were the only Indos there.