I doan know what ayuh Coalition mudheads did or said to Mark to merit this smackdown but I think you people need to quit walking around like the Opposition Mafia.

It would be hilarious if Mark comes out the only credible Opposition "victor" in this election.

Like WOW man, he's running with this, that's it?

Much as I have no quarrels with Mark, he ain't going anywhere with this.

"We in the Independent Party have made it clear that upon elected to serve the people through parliament, our first act would be to REFUSE any duty free concessions for vehicles."

Cain I believe its more than about Mark, for me, even though I do not have a vote, it's about retaining the minority government.

Mark is looking like the only real alternative right now, the others (PPP/APNU and coalition) just retain the status quo. They and the majority their supporters are all about themselves; what favors their party of choice can do for them or their families. Go back and read the posts of many of them on here over the years and you will “understand” their beef.

Right now I would say vote Mark and hope it leads to a minority government again.

Poli, don't you think the joint opposition has done what most have wanted for so long...people coming together?

I already mentioned I was against the opposition parties joining but they have done so and I would not stop backing them. It is obvious there has to be some sort of change and hopefully for the good of the country.

If the PPP somehow manages to come away winning, the people have no one but themselves to blame for the depth of the shitpile their country will keep slinking into.

People seem to forget about Mark and his bullhorn urging low lives to attack innocent people on the East Coast

not forgotten Rif..but he at least appears to present an alternative...

Nope, people did not forget. Especially the young woman who was torched in the vehicle and robbed.

MB is a wannabe Politician. He posted on GNI a few times attacking me.

Cain, I do not trust the PPP nor the PNC. I like AFC because they presented an alternative at best and at worst to maintaining checks and balances on the government, but now that system of checks and balances has been removed....

The PNC in power will be no different than the PPP; the old guards are still in control.

Hahahaha, I am dying with laughter here. MB, a PPP supporter, then a PNC supporter, now an independent, hehehe .

Guyana is a real funny place!

Guess he likes the taste of his own piss

I suspect MB might discover that even many of those who respect him, see him as a Sharma type, not as presidential material, so would rather he stays out of parliament.

Sharma type, I like that, hahaha, yu hit the nail on the head, hahaha

He should team with Bandu and then get Landu.

Where and when did this occur exactly?

Politicians are great at making promises.

Brother Mark must remain independent and not allow the PNC/AFC to intimidate him.

Since when did you become a staunch Independent Party man?

I didn't know you like Black people?

Amazing how ready you are to suck up to anyone who cusses the opposition, yuji.

Recently it was Sister Vanessa Kissoon when she had problems with her PNC.

Today it's Brother Mark.

BTW, APNU named Sharma Solomon to head its elections campaign team in Linden. Vanessa is in. The PPP will lose much of the votes it got in Linden in 2011. Lindeners haven't forgotten how Rohee sent his police in 2012 to shoot demonstrators, killing three and injuring dozens.

right now, the coalition dynamic will marginalize small political parties

Mark Benschop's time will come

he needs to show political maturity, avoid the hot-headed nonsense reported at the top of this thread, and understand that this is bigger than Khemraj Ramjattan, Moses Nagamootoo, David Granger, and even the PPP, APNU or AFC

i've been talking to people in Guyana all day today . . . the youth will make history in May

But how will they get the youths out to vote? All the parties keep making promises to the youths but no proper specifics?

how about:

1. Interest free loans for postsecondary undergrad degrees
2. Government pays 50% of all undergrads tuition of those studying science and technology leading to a bachelor's degree
3. Guaranteed 6 -12 months paid internship after third year of university to make students work ready after graduation
4. Paid internships for students of all technical trades and career colleges
5. Offering companies incentives to hire interns such as the government paying 50% of the interns wages
6. Giving contracts to foreign companies, especially engineering, on condition that they hire at least 3% interns to work in their related field of studies and not for running errands
7. Getting foreign for profit hospitals, for medical tourism, built on condition that they offer internships to all available medical students at the university
8. 100  thousand no interest 10 yr  loans and up to 1,000,000 low interest payable in 20 yrs for youths who have a good business plan so that they can start a business

There is very little vision from Gy politicians but boy can they ever "talk"

the "youth" vote is essentially a vote for breaking with the past . . . these kids did not know Burnham or Jagan

some of y'all big people would happily have Guyana punish forever at the hands of depraved PPP gangsters just because you blame Afro-Guyanese and their generations for (mostly apocryphal) bad things "PNC" blackman did to you

Seriously!?!?!?!? smh

He is completely on point. The PPP is disconnected from  60% of the electorate with its messaging of boogieman of another era. They might as well be speaking of aliens because the most prescient fact is that these people only know the PPP and they know them for being corrupt, nepotistic, autocratic and progress the PPP speak of  has left them behind. The PPP practices crony capitalism so these the young know well they have little chance to get ahead on merit.

yes, seriously!

we have the shaitaans of this BB who barely know what Burnham looked like  spouting nonsense about "Hitler" and blackman "laying siege" to the Indo-Guyanese nation . . . baseman screaming about "apartheid" . . . and sundry idiots burbling about genocide via douglarization thru rape as policy, and the great aloo plot to destroy Indian culture

you can nail Burnham with a boatload of legitimate bad shit without resort to this level of stupidness

u want me to continue . . .?

There should be free education from elementary to post-secondary for all Guyanese citizens.  This student loan nonsense that was brought in by Hoyte and continued by the Jagans only serves to keep poor people in poverty.

I agree here on free education in University.

Education must be completely free for ALL Guyanese. This must be part of the political discussion during this election campaign.

The lack of free education in University puts the poor at a disadvantage.

I give the PPP a big duck egg on this one. What is fair is fair.

Yes, students go to UG, get a free education, get a degree, and then move to North America to add some talent to the white people society.

Yes students go to QC, get a free education, get a degree, and then move to North America to add talent to the white people society

Hahahaha, I never said I was not a hypocrite!

That is the first respectable thing I've heard you say in a long time. :d

Are you trying to suggest that 60% of those who are registered and plan to vote are between 18 and 35?

All over the word young people vote less than others, and this will be especially true in a country like Guyana where many have given up and the relevance of the gov't to their lives.  Since 1997 65k voters have "disappeared".  

Redux are you suggesting that Guyana in the 80s was a nice place to live?

I suggest to you that the less said about Burnham the better.  APNU has to promote itself as a very different party, which I do believe that it is.

enough with your passive-aggressive shyte . . . where did i say such a thing?

who gives a f**k about Burnham; i am not a member of APNU

learn to bloody read, and stop smoking whatever you are smoking!

You're not a morning person, are you chap?

Yeah, somebody will give them free ganja to smoke all day.

yes "the youth" . . . u have a problem with the vernacular?

you give them free education

stop smoke that cheap shit