Remittances do enter the economy, once either spent, or deposited in bank accounts.   In addition there has been heavy expenditures in real estate by overseas Guyanese in recent years.

Take away gold and remittances, and the failure of the PPP would be apparent, even to people like ramakant.

To you and the rest of the Indo KKK, Guyana is a piece of real estate, as you fantasize about your Mother India (which doesn't seem to want you).

To the rest of us Guyana is way more than that, and there is are distinct Guyanese identities.

Most interesting reading.

The voices from the past are with us against.

Hurray! Hurray!

Intelligent postings raining

Actually no, I fantasize "Amerindia". I was welcomed to stay in India, not wish, I prefer my own Amerindia.

Indeed you do...

I have written extensively on this matter. Most Guyanese are racists as manifested in the racial votes. I have always said that. If you ask them in a survey whether they are racist they will say no. So, you need indirect measures like voting preferences. Indeed, Guyana Times and Chronicle led the anti-black racism since 2011. I am perhaps one of the first to point this out. You also had Mighty Rebel singing a calypso "Desi Yuh Wrong" and being cheered by thousands of Afro Guyanese at the National Park. It is said Hammie pulled a gun on Desi because like Mighty Rebel he felt rigging election is the way to maintain power. The Granger govt gave him one of the country's hightest National Awards. As I said, we have to look at racial preferences indirectly since most of them will deny. So here again is one set of indicator of how racist the country really is:

Table 2A         Source of votes and party identification by ethnicity

2009 survey:

           PPP          PNC        AFC

Indian         68,7          1.7       17.3

This does not add up.

Moreover, what I have tried to do is show that Indian and Black racism are endogenous as they are fighting for limited economically/competitively exploitable resources and opportunities. I tried to model this as a prisoners dilemma game to show how they are shooting themselves in the feet...and they don't even know it.  

a couple of things

the Guyana Chronicle did not become a racist blight on the Guyanese landscape only since 2011, and u very well know that

further, "rigging elections" is one key way dictatorships maintain themselves in power; it is not a marker for "racism"!

similarly, PPP rigging, authoritarian tactics and tiefman strategies to maintain itself in power are not necessarily "racist" but cross over (recognizably) into that realm when they start the kind of thing that landed Bharat Jagdeo in court per the salutory efforts of citizen Christopher Ram

It just so happen that in the case of Guyana election rigging and strong man methods have a deep racial coincidence. I have to be honest. I don't read the Chronicle, except recently in the past few years. I would not be surprised they were race-baiting before 2011.

Jalil, Ah hope yuh getting paid for your service

Guyanese vote based upon ethnic insecurity. And they have solid reasons to have these fears.

We have seen a whole narrative of the "black savage and the good Indian", and it is repeated here.  Have you written against this narrative, and attacked those who peddle it? 

In addition we have an embellished narrative peddled by the Guyana Times, and The Chronicle (under the PPP), and by ROAR and Ravi Dev, and Ryhaan Shah, and the racist pandit, who further add that blacks are lazy, unproductive, and have as their sole goal to live off Indians.

In fact the PPP used this narrative, WITH THE FULL SUPPORT of the MAJORITY of the Indian population, to exclude black people, and to portray us as a people unfit to lead.

These views have been peddled so frequently on GNI, that in some quarters it has become seen as a hate site.  So much so that the vast majority of the blacks, who used to post here, left.  And the few who remain are branded as racists because we REFUSE to remain silent in the face of this bigotry against Afro Guyanese.

At what point did you confront these views which became dominant.

So here is where Africans were by 2006.

1.  Those who said that Hoyte was wrong, felt vindicated, when the PPP (and the Indian population at large) treated blacks exactly as they said that they would.

2. Blacks like David Hinds, and the others in the WPA, who fought for multi racial Guyana, and who remained opposed to the PNC, until recently, felt USED by the Indians, who proceeded to establish or condone the PPP evolving into a racist party as the PNC certainly was under Burnham.

You have spent more time attacking me, who raise these issues, than you do attacking baseman, cobra, yuji,rev,skeldonman, conscience, billy ramgoat, and others who displayed attitudes wuite in keeping with a white supremacist hate site.

Here is the issue.  When Indians like YOU, do NOT openly condemn Indian racism, in the way that Africans like David Hinds, Andaiye, Bonita Harris, Eusi Kwayana, and many others confronted African racism, then Indians will continue to be seen by most non Indians as an ethnically exclusive group, who don't care the slightest about other Guyanese.

You want Africans to begin to trust Indians.  Well OPENLY condemn Indian racists just as many Africans condemned African racism.  One does NOT see Africans peddling the racist stereotypes of Indians in credible media that one used to see against Africans during the PPP era.  

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You are missing the point.  Race based voting is a SYMPTOM of a problem.  It is not THE problem.  Africans/mixed and Indians vote race as they have had experience of living in Guyana, and they know that BOTH the PPP and the PNC have used ethnically exclusive measures to retain power.  So they vote by fear.

So this isn't the issue.  The issue is that African racism was confronted, not only by Indians, but even by many African intellectuals. We have not seen the same when it comes to Indian racism. 

We see two reactions.  The first being the openly bigoted racists, and the second being the majority who remain silent, that is until an African begins to speak of the impact that Indian racism had on Africans between 1992-2015.   They then attack the African as a racist for bringing up the issue.

Now why do the socalled moderate Indians only attack Africans when they raise the topic of Indian racism.  Because Indians, BOTH the racists, and the moderates, have been fed a diet of "baad black man, good Indian," by the PPP, and hold themselves as the moral superiors of Africans. 

So Africans, who EQUATE Indian racism with African racism (as do I), become a threat because they threaten to expose the fact that Indians are EQUALLY culpable in excluding Africans (trying and failing to do so in 1957-64, but being very successful in 1992-2015).

By ignoring Indian racism, and calling Africans who discuss this racists, you pathetically try to maintain this moral superiority.  But alas, as heads of state entities are being released, we see that there are almost  NO Africans to be so penalized?  How so in a society when Africans have been administrators since the COLONIAL era?

Bhai.....

not sharing Henney & Porkey like dem Crab Louse.

But Shitye & "J" as in Jenny  been braggin

how Dem Ole PNC troop of Howler 

chase me way from Monkey Mountain.

David trying with them

EMPTY VESSEL....

 

Visit Guyana

 

 

Brigadier David Granger shared Graham Watkins's photo.

August 18 at 5:21pm ·

 

David say

the Bengal Tiger 

protecting him from

them Empty Vessel Howlers..... 

 

 

 

Bump!

2006 and 2014 present different info from 2009...but the raced based voting is evident.