I suppose all the smart people saying the AFC is being buggered in front of our very eyes are wrong. None of us know what we're talking about.

We all just hate the AFC and/or are "jealous" of AFC success. I notice how the AFC takes criticisms just as badly as the PPP did/does. No critic will go un-molested.

The mudheads still savoring their 12 seat bonus.  They don't yet realize, the currency has switched!  All now gone fuh channa, as Nehru would say.

They said they're working on constitutional reform. Give them a year to see if they deliver on that.

Well, mudhead, you have been wrong 90% of the time, so who cares what you think.

They'll deliver. It will take a while for the PPP voters and supporters to understand this process. They have been so accustomed to live under an autocratic PPP regime that chewed and swallowed for them, they can't yet figure out that there is an alternative to chewing and swallowing. If they don't see those processes mentioned or in place, they assume they'll starve.

Yes, like they just delivered "A Government of National Unity".

Little girly man Harry Shivdat...bet you cannot tell me that face to face.

Maxwell's hasty analysis is a bit off on a couple of important points

but i have some of the same concerns

however, the gov't is barely 2 weeks old . . . still in the transition, and there is no budget

reasonable (and fair) people will wait out the 100 days

Of course it is. Are you suggesting that we have had a better unity government at any time in our history before this one?

The UK government is just a week older than that of Guyana. And the UK government don't expect to have a budget ready till July.

The challenges they face are enormous. That Guysuco crisis alone should keep them up at night. Guysuco can't be fixed in 100 days. Guysuco is a PPP engineered problem...deliberately for the purpose of selling the assets at rock bottom prices to a selected few. Why do you believe people like Harry (Baseman) is no angry. His career failed and they were salivating over the sugar assets that Jagdeo promised them. Then you have Marriott that needs a few more million US$ to complete so that it can compete with the other hotels scampering for a space in a 55% occupancy rate market. The entire drainage system is failing and there will be lots of sabotage from the rebels who returned from Cuba. Privatizing Guysuco will not solve the drainage problem because no private investor will perform a task that is essentially a public good. Gold price will not get better. The Saudis will make sure marginal new wells don't make a lot of money.

Baseman will tell you that anytime lil traitor.

I am coming over later this month to yuh lil bookkeeping office...hold tight girly man...

I ain't know what "bookkeeping", I guess you got the wrong man.

Minister of Governance is Raphael Trotman.  Interpret this as you will.

Each day brings more news of the PPPs failure.  Not only did we find out that at 40%, Guyana has the HIGHEST level of youth unemployment in the English Caribbean, but now we are hearing that we have the highest levels of primary school aged kids who don't attend school regularly.

Reasonable and fair people will offer constructive criticism now that they might impact how the coalition uses its 100 days, than to wait it out, and then be forced to complain when it is too late.

There is no reason why a proper explanation of the restructuring of ministries has yet to be provided.  We aren't asking for a budget or even an economic blue print.

I will suggest that they don't have 100 days to deal with the Guysuco problem.

Most of the "AFC" MPs will be PNCites who left the PNC in name only.

I was once told in 2006 that the AFC was a strategic long term plan to split the Indian vote. I don't know if that was the case but we can look at the results. The AFC's sole contribution to Guyana thus far has been the election of the PNC into Majority Government.

enuf with your "when it's too late" bullshit

it is precisely because Guysuco is imploding that i ask y'all to keep your powder dry

park the back-seat carping about who creating jobs for the bais; we need an all-hands-on-deck approach for Bharat's folly in the sugar belt

someone like Tony Vieira should replace Raj Singh forthwith; the books need to be examined by competent authorities (get int'l help if you need it); and make it the highest budget priority to finance a cushion for what is inevitably an industry in radical transition

there is politicking on BOTH sides of the coalition

the fact that no important leader in the AFC seemed to want the agriculture portfolio is a big disappointment to me . . . i know it's a bad name wuk, but minista job is necessarily about service to the people foremost, not the accumulation of power

this is real life people; i will concern myself with Granger's ego and the too many ministas in their funny named ministries after important shit is dealt with in the 100 days

Put twenty economists in a room and they will give you twenty different solutions to the same problem. Look, they said that they will do certain things in the first 100 days. Quit being so pessimistic. Let us see what happens instead of all the guesses. Economics is not an exact science. 

I've heard the parrots repeat that on numerous occasions. What is your beef?

I see Guyanese remain mired in the Janet Jagan/Forbes Burnham/Bharat Jagdeo scheme of goverance where the autocrats decide from on high and the meek peasants must accept.

No one is seriously criticising the coalition gov't.  The PPP is whining like spoiled brats, instead of tending to their role as the opposition.  Others are offering constructive criticism as they want the coalition to do the best that it can.

TK is discussing real problems that the PPP has left behind, and over the next couple of weeks we will hear more and more.  Marriott is a mess as there is no private investor, and no funds to complete the hotel. Guysuco is insolvent.  We will find out that the treasury is bare and that debts are higher than we are told.  We are already getting confirmation that Guyanese are indeed the poorest in the English Caribbean, with large numbers of primary school age kids not regularly attending school.

It is not anti gov't to point these facts out.

I'll tell you that and even show you that.....

Oh sk0nt....bad man show up.....

*The PPP is no longer in power. They were kicked out of office. The PNC/AFC were voted in to right all of the wrongs committed by the PPP. Let's give them time and see how well they govern.

* WILL THE PNC/AFC BE BETTER OR WORSE THAN THE PPP ?

* We shall see.

Rev

Some mixed signals so far.  We don't need a PNC sanitization process.  Move forward with the Coalition goals, not PNC image rescuing.

If President Granger keep going the way he going, 1000 days will pass by and he won't accomplish anything. I wish him well. His ministers are all lacking. The Prime Minister is a career politician. These men are not business people. A great many are lawyers. Together, they do not have any inkling of what to do. To set up a government is a different story than managing a corporation

Think Tank-perhaps is what is needed. They were bold in stating the diaspora may have some of the solutions.

It is interesting to note Nagamootoo's call to Cuba to solve the problems of the sugar industry. News for the PM, Cuba sugar industry has shrunk. Ramsammy was chasing foreigners to solve the woes of the sugar industry. And in Guyana, Bookers spent a few million(1957 $) to set a school to train people to service the sugar industry. And they doan even look in that direction. Some of those same graduates were recruited for the Nigerian, Bahamas and Southern States sugar industry. Some of those graduate should be on Guysuco Board. Viera would kill sugar - a bad choice. 

Pres. Granger should identify which two areas he wish tackle and throw enough money at it and have results quicker than 100 days. And then move to the next two. That way people will see results.

Expand on this.

Where is the EXPANSION?