When they formed the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan and Raphael Trotman, announced with great fanfare they’d solved Guyana’s ethnic problem. And how did these two political refugees accomplish this feat which had escaped everyone up to then? “Simple!” they announced.
The two of them would become leaders of their party and – representing the ‘two major races’ of Guyana – would alternate the party’s presidential candidacy after every election.
Yep! That was it! Indians and Africans would gaze at these two men, see their hopes and aspirations reflected in the latter’s faces, and grab the ‘key’! Trotman had to have meant he was representing Africans… ‘two major races’ and all that.