Agreed.

One constitutional change would be the scrapping of Proportional Representation and the re-introduction of the first-past-the-post constituency system. The people must vote directly for their MPs at free and fair elections.

Why is it interesting? Do you think it would be any different for a PPP member? Ramjattan was ostracized on the suspicion he was talking to the US. These things could not happen if we were a true republican state. We need direct representation where ministers would not be creatures of t he party but answerable to their native constituency.

Whatever is going on in t he PNC camp is a consequence of our closed lists system. Do not pretend the PPP would not do the same in event one of their members choose to vote against the party. It has never happened simply because of our party system.

I would not go for FPTP. It is easy for party bosses to over load the system by presenting multiple candidates to dilute the effectiveness of the vote  ( especially in single legislature systems). We may have to look to bicameralism and even some form of a multi vote electoral system.

First they came for James Mc Allister and she said nothing.....

Then they came for Aubrey Norton and she said nothing....

Now they smcame for her.....

Granger and his "small crew" according to Norton is at play in Congress Place..

The beginning of the end for the coalition..... 

You blasted korehee.

You now is a big defender of James Mc Allister?

Nah mek me laugh.

You certified racist Conscince who is all for the Krulli is now a big defender of James.

Shame on your soul for being such a hypocrite.

A.P.N.U consist mainly of a bunch of super-centric would wants total control by any means possible, its very evident they can even put their own house in order....The Guyanese populace are no fools....

The biggest fool is the PPP fools like you Conscience.

Opps, got to go, her come a client.  $$$$.  Later

What complete and utter drivel! The PPP has less than 15 deciding everything. One person give us jagdeo.  Not fifteen give us Ramotar! Excellence of propriety with respect to internal democracy did not matter here. You practice democratic centralism so why complain of the PNC when you have the same undemocratic policies?

Democratic Centralism harkens back to the 3rd Leninist congress in the early 20's! That is the model of the PPP party organization so what the hell are you talking about?

If any one presumes the Guyanese are fools it is the PPP. The Guyanese people can use their Google Fu and examine the PPP communist carcass for the origin of its stink. Yes, they are organized and  governed by a small cabal who by convention must  circle the wagon. That is why in 22 years not one PPP members has been sanctioned, demoted or even suspended! They are by their communist creed perfect!

Vanessa Kissoon should not be afraid to come public and share her side of the story, which the populace await

You are a fool.

PNC/APNU, parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon was beaten during an altercation with General Secretary Oscar Clarke at the party's Congress Place, Sophia headquarters. A source revealed that Kissoon and Clarke had a heated exchange over the use of the PNC/APNU's Linden office. Clarke then dealt her several slaps and pushed her to the ground after he felt she got the upper-hand during their verbal exchange.  The source said there's a falling out between the Granger led faction of which Clarke is a member and a Linden group led by Aubrey Norton which consists of Kissoon, Sharma Solomon and several others. As a result the source said PNC/APNU leader though not present when the latest incident occurred, quickly took Clarke's side and Kissoon was suspended without being afforded due-process.

This is not the first incident in which a member of the PNC/APNU has been assaulted by party members. Former GECOM commissioner Haslyn Parris was also given a sound thrashing at Congress Place several years ago.

source

So the PNC beating up them grass root leader now.  Not surprised.  That is the PNC, dictators.

u doan give a shyte about, and know NOTHING of Vanessa Kissoon and her politics . . . so stop posing as if u care

You know, right TYRONE?  Blacted political CROOK.  All you want is the access to the Treasury so you Tyrone can rip off the poor people to enrich you, you mamoo and mammie and yu who generation.  

Why don't you work for what yu want, why suck the people?

Like you so dume Jumbie No. 1, you have to post two time the same message.

I am happy you fianlly got it, no one is listening to your rubbish.

Its time Vanessa Kissoon make her story public and don't be afraid of Granger, even if he wanna threaten her with the recall legislation, she should clear her side of the story....

The residents of Linden appears to be very peeved over the Vanessa Kissoon saga....it seems she would share the same faith as Aubrey Norton, is she a victim of the wrath of the "small crew" at congress place that Aubrey Norton spoke of?

Observers of the controversy which erupted between A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon and General Secretary, Oscar Clarke has questioned David Granger’s ability to provide proper leadership. An individual who spent years in the PNC hierarchy said Granger seems to be lacking in terms of his leadership ability and this was reflected in the way he responded following Oscar Clarke’s assault on Kissoon.

In explaining what transpired Kissoon said though she was not the aggressor in the incident she was notified of her suspension via email by Granger. Granger had apparently determined that Clarke’s complaints against her were ‘credible’ enough to have her suspended before a meeting of the Central Executive Committee was summoned as is required under the party’s constitution. He has therefore already prejudiced the outcome of any investigation into the incident by ascribing guilt and clearly taking Clarke’s side as he was not present when the incident occurred and was merely relying on Clarke’s version of the incident. This, the source said, is a reflection of poor leadership and the kind of divisiveness which has been brewing ever since Granger was installed by Robert Corbin. The source said that Granger has alienated a significant portion of the hardcore PNC membership through his divide and rule tactics as well as vindictiveness towards those who supported Winston Murray, Vincent Alexander and later Carl Greenidge.

The PNC really treated this soldier really bad.  They will suffer for such poor political decision making.

Watch, wait and see!

Vanessa Kissoon is a very outspoken woman, it appears her style doesn't find favour at Congress Place.

MP Kissoon says assaulted at Congress Place

Breaking her silence on her suspension from the PNCR, parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon says she was assaulted at the party’s headquarters in an incident in which she was not the aggressor and was later suspended before a meeting of the party’s Central Executive Committee was even convened.

In an e-mail response to a request for a comment by Stabroek News, Kissoon said that she had been reading articles in the media and hearing rumours that do not accurately represent what occurred on Friday, 20th June, 2014.

“At this time I prefer not to go into the details of the incident, save to say, that I was assaulted at Congress Place and I was not the aggressor…,” she said.

Vanessa Kissoon

Stabroek News had been told that there was an altercation between PNCR General Secretary Oscar Clarke and Kissoon, apparently stemming from differences over the use of the party’s facilities in Linden.

According to Kissoon, she was subsequently sent an email by party leader David Granger on June 24th, notifying her of her suspension. Kissoon had previously stated to Stabroek News that she was not made formally aware of her suspension.

extracted from the Stabroek News

More than a week has passed since PNC/APNU parliamentarian Vanessa Kissoon was assaulted at Congress Place and we still haven't heard a word of condemnation from Red Thread, GHRA, Guyana Bar Association, Guyana Women Lawyers Association, the AFC, WPA et al.

Did you go to the police and show them the bruising on your batty?

Vanessa Kissoon seems to be a victim of being outspoken within her camp, it wouldn't come as no surprise if Granger use the recall legislation against Ms. Kissoon. 

I agree, Old man Oscar slap the gyal and he so old he fall down from the impact.  He blame the gyal for having a too hard face and suspended her.

THe PNC is a corrupt part that cannot stand stroong, opinionated women.

They also kicked out Faith Harding.

People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) member, Vanessa Kissoon and party leader, David Granger are at loggerheads over his decision to suspend her before she appears before a Disciplinary Committee to probe her alleged misconduct.

Asked why Kissoon was suspended before the alleged incident between her and PNCR General Secretary, Oscar Clarke was investigated, Granger said he acted based on available evidence. “The evidence presented did not indicate that both parties needed to be suspended in this matter. The General Secretary was behaving entirely in accordance with the constitution and in accordance with his legitimate duties,” that party’s leader told Demerara Waves Online News.

She has claimed that Clarke assaulted her on June 20, 2014 at the PNCR’s Congress Place Headquarters, Sophia when he asked her for the key to the party’s Region 10 Office.  Kissoon maintains that she does not have the key to the premises.

Kissoon, in one of several correspondences between herself and the party leader that she released to the media Thursday afternoon, expressed disappointment that credible complaints to suspend her without a hearing were sufficient. “To determine the complaint made against me as credible without hearing my side shows a disregard for arrival at the truth behind the allegations made,” she said in an email to Granger dated June 28, 2014.

source: Excerpts from Demerara Waves

THE BIG QUESTION IN NEW GRANGER/KISSOON ROW

July 12, 2014

It may appear that PNC is still practising its racism. No chance of leadership is you have any trace of Indo Blood. PNC is an exclusive Black Leadership party. Indos and those who have traces of Indo Blood are welcome in the PNC as second class members.

I hold strongly to this view - the PNC/APNU is an afro-centri political party.

Indo-Guyanese are just window dress for them.  

suh kishan, this is what u reduced to . . . co-singing yugee no-nothing, ignar shyte that the Vanessa Kissoon imbroglio is about ethnicity

lol

what morons u two

are we saying the same for the ppp

Heheheh! PPP=PNC.

Correct. 

Indos in the racist PNC are window dressers.

An Indo will NEVER head the PNC nor will they even come close to the top leadership of the Afro Centric PNC. Those who have mixed blood will be treated with contempt. Take a close look at Vanessa Kissoon and other with mixed blood and how the PNC treats them.

The General Secretary of a party is like the Chief Whip of the party.  That person's job is to protect the leader from members with strong personalities so the leader can do his or her job.  If you are a PPP member and you curse out Jagdeo or Donald at a party function see if you will not get a visit from Gail or Rohee 

Same old P.N.C...same old P.N.C

Rift in PNCR over Vanessa Kissoon deepens

- Linden committee says prepared to raise matter at Congress

Linden PNCR members are threatening to take their concerns over the suspension of Vanessa Kissoon to the floor of the party’s delegates’ conference this weekend, signalling a further deepening of divisions.

Yesterday, the Linden PNCR committee held a press conference at the Critchlow Labour College and reiterated its position that Kissoon had been improperly suspended by PNCR Leader David Granger and as such she was advised not to appear today before a disciplinary committee which was set up to investigate an altercation she had with party General Secretary Oscar Clarke.

The continuing contretemps over Kissoon’s suspension from the party threatens to mar what should be an occasion for a full show of unity at this weekend’s Biennial Delegates Congress.

The disciplinary committee is supposed to commence its investigation today but without a representative from Region 10. The Linden PNCR members called for a disbanding of the committee. Representative of the PNCR’s Region 10 committee Leslie Gonsalves stated that it is usually the function of the Central Executive Committee of the party to appoint a disciplinary committee at Congress and that there has been no committee in place since Granger took over the leadership of the party two years ago.

Gonsalves said that “what is clear here is Mr Granger has …appointed an ad hoc committee, not one consistent with the Party rules.”

Among the five persons selected by Granger to be on the committee is Allan Monroe who is to act as the Chairman and who according to Gonsalves is also Granger’s neighbour. Gonsalves continued that Lance Carberry is the political advisor to the PNCR leader while Malika Ramsey, MP Chris Jones and Cheryl Sampson are employees of Congress Place. “All these persons are members of the Central Executive Committee and have voted supporting the leader’s decision to suspend Ms Kissoon,” Gonsalves noted.

He ventured that the act of supporting Granger’s decision “disqualifies all of the named persons to be impartial arbiters in this affair.”

The Region 10 members stated that Granger and his allies were mixing up their roles and were disregarding the party rules. As a result, they said, Kissoon would not be given a fair hearing and as things stood Kissoon has already been found guilty.

Gonsalves added that the region had been lobbying for two representatives on the disciplinary committee.

However when questioned by the media if that did not signal bias on the other side of the coin, Gonsalves replied that the region was concerned with the party adhering to the rules of conduct.

The names supplied by Region 10 for the committee were those of Gonsalves, the region’s vice chairman, Maurice Butters and head of the women’s arm, Lotoya Williams.

Williams expressed her support for Kissoon stating that the women’s arm was standing in solidarity with her. Williams argued that the party wanted support in denouncing the appointment of the government’s town clerk, Carol Sooba, however the PNCR was doing the same by “imposing” Coordinator Sandra Adams on the region.

excerpts from the Stabroeknews