If the PPP, old communists mind you, can become crony capitalists who is to say the PNC cannot change. It is not like we are stepping in the same river. lots of water has gone down stream; the landscape has shifted.
Every honest person knows that Hoyte, after 1990 was a radically different person from Burnham. By 1990 he had sidelined the hardline Burnhamists, so was free to pursue his agenda. Not only did Guyana turn around but Hoyte set the stage to prevent Janet Jagan from turning it into a satellite of Fidel Castro, which she definitely would have done had Burnhamism still being the philosophy of the PNC in 1992.
The PPP wishes to hide that fact, which is why they rant about "28 years" when the excesses of the PNC were between 1973 and 1988. Outside of that period Guyana enjoyed strong economic growth while the PNC was in power. Indeed it was the PNC, prior to 1973, which began the MMA project, and engaged in massive road building, sea defense, and rural water and electrification. They don't get credit for that because after 1973 mismanagement led to the collapse of what they had built between 1966 and 1972.
Too many damn Chinese projects-no sustainability.