The PPP decreed Ramotar without a single baboo vote and it was so.

They haven't even published an MP List yet and the GNI baboo crowd is ready to cheer.

When in Rome , do as the Romans. Who says Trini smart?

dude,

that is the best you can come up with? what is "smart" about excluding all coolies from the nomination process of their own party?

Also, WTF does "when in rome do as the romans do?" have to do with the nomination process of a political party?

are you high?

 It may because in Guyana the British imposed PR system is in place and in Trinidad they are using the first past the poll system. 

I agree with you with you that the entire electoral system in Guyana needs to be changed back to first past the poll system, but this needs a constitutional change, as well.

It isn't completely.

In Israel, they have the same PR system yet party primaries elect by popular vote the order of the List for each party so the more popular and well liked you are the higher ranked you are on the List and the electorate knows beforehand who will enter Parliament for a particular party and in what order based on votes received.

In Guyana, no one knows. It is purely an exercise in one man extracting names post-election according to the wishes of his ExCo.

Thanks for the info.

Parties can install whatever system to electing their officials. No need to blame the British for their strategy which pertains to democratic centralism.

Also, a plain FTPT system would be patently unfair in guyana single constituency system. It would harden ethnic voting patterns.

We need another system I often suggest a multivote system but some say that is too complex. In any event, voting systems are not simply foisted on a people. They ought to be established to maximize merit over nepotism.