Dr Hinds, Everything you say is true. Unfortunately the APNU is like obama, under the delusion we are in a race neutral society and not demanding the kind of oversight and controls on the agencies of state that would even the playing field. 

BTW Krishna, how in the world is he a foreign politician? He did more to unseat burnham than most presently in the PPP. I am sure it is from the minds of people like him who are able to speak coherently and intellectually on what impedes change and how change can be accommodated that we will get to see daylight.

What makes you competent to speak on these issues and not him? I can point to dozens of articles from him speaking specifically to constitutional change, possible methodologies for change etc and would like to hear your opinion.

I get tired of people making simplistic statements berating others and yet have never uttered a word of profundity addressing the same. Let me know how we may unseat the PPP since you seem to know. This is t he second time you took potshots at people who are clearly actively working for change for no clear reason. If you are going to attack them, do so with some sense you know why and on what account. 

Dr HINDS SAID THIS?

One such myth in Guyana is the inferior instincts for commerce and less than sterling contributions of African Guyanese to the evolution of the Guyanese economy. How often have we heard that African Guyanese cannot do business or that the emancipated Africans abandoned the sugar industry in the wake of Emancipation or that widespread poverty in the African Guyanese community is a result of laziness and preference for shallow materialism? What about the charges of economic marginalization of African Guyanese and the counter charges of economic equality? One prominent political leader asserted some two decades ago that African Guyanese were at the bottom of the economic ladder. Was this true then? If so, is it still true today? Are African Guyanese villages still viable economic units? How has the Structural Adjustment economic thrust of the last three decades impacted on the African Guyanese economic fortunes? If we accept that all is not well economically with African Guyanese, what should or can be done to repair the situation? 

Now I want to do an experient and I DO NOT FEEL THIS WAY.  ALL I am doing is using DR HINDS WORDS and chaning Afro Guyanese for East Indian with a few contextual change and she what is the outcome.  I I see below is an extremely racist East Indian point of view and by extention DR HINDS IS A RACIST!

THE EXPERIMENT - NOT MY VIEWS

One such myth in Guyana is the inferior instincts for public service and less than sterling contributions of East Indians to the evolution of the Guyanese nation state in the state institutions. How often have we heard that East Indians are not strong enough or dedicated enough to the nation to serve in the GDF or the POLICE or the public service or that they abandon any opportunity to serve in the teaching service or nursing profession or the public services because the salary too low?

How often we hear that the East Indian only want money and only want to be in business and that is why they have so much economic wealth and that is why they have to pay back to the Afro-Guyanese community be it by way of CRIME or PETTY BRIBERY.

How often we hear of the East indian cheated and with cunningness follow materialism?

What about the charges of economic dominateion of the East Indians and the counter charges of economic superiority of the East Indians?

One prominent political leader asserted some two decades ago that East Indians are at the TOP of the economic ladder. Was this true then? If so, is it still true today? How come the East Indian of Guyana have so much material wealth?

Now the APNU boys will call me racist but all I did was use Dr. Hinds words and change it up to replace Afro Guyanese with the word East Indians and it show how dirty and racist his message is.

I HAVE NO TIME FOR THESE RACIST.

Stormborn.

I feel strongly about people like Vera and Hinds who are only interested in one thing  - POWER.

Well if they were right, then overwelmingly the Guyanese people who have been backing them and they would have had power.  But they are a liability to which ever party has them inside since NO EAST INDIAN will vote for any party with DR HINDS in it since his message is equivalent to RAVI DEV message with a different racial face and both of them are wrong.

Guyanese are not interested in if an AFRO Guyanese or INDO Guyanese on TOP.  Every one is interested in the PIE being shared to more people.

Let me answer your two posts in one. Clearly you know little of hinds. He is and never denied it, a panafricanist. He has a definition for it and I understand it to be no more than Indians who celebrate Indian Arrival Day say of themselves.

That he is a racist on account of that or that he highlights the latent racial divisions in the society is your problem not mine. I know many Indians are nakedly racist. Acknowledging that fact is not being racist.

I know Hinds as a professor and an intellectual. This is the most personal one can get to the individual's mind since writings are distilled essence of the individual. This idea that he wants power  is silly prejudice because you have not told me why you think so.

Let me know what you know of his mind and thinking that equates to wanting power  ( coincident with him lacking the virtue necessary to possess it).

Job opoortunities are very scarce in Guyana. Employment mostly in the areas of vendors and the ability to do something in the self-employment areas. Government jobs are limited to only a few.

The GOG should do more to develop the country by investing in projects/manufacturing that provide equipment/hardware for the betterment of life. In other words curtail imports regardless of how inexpensive the products are. Make our own stuff.

In the areas of Mining, it seems that Guyanese are being shaft for Foreign Investments. I am a believer in doing whatever it takes to nuture Guyanese in all endeavors. And Mining is one area that the government should do much more for Guynaese miner in encouraging them to form companies and raise capital for their equipment.

Stormborn, I do not know the good Doctor but I am not comfortable with the brashness of his message.

Just saying.

I think we have to understand the pain from all sides.

We have lots of friends in common and it is a miracle we never met. I have no problems with his message. I may disagree with his solutions ie power-sharing but I see no vindictiveness there.

This is not a matter of pain on all sides. It is a matter of  being honest and confronting a chronic problem, ethnic divisions and the massaging of the same by the major parties to maintain their power base.

The PPP sees nothing wrong with the constitution now that they are in power. They will lose, that is inevitable  and then every Indian will cry a river because   their eyes will be opened to the inherent unfairness of the system as they find themselves on bended knees trying to  get a fair hand.

In 1979, I attended almost all the WPA public meetings in Georgetown and Kitty where Dr Walter Rodney spoke.

Rodney was explaining that the masses must not look for a saviour to rescue them from Burnham's oppressive government.

He said the masses have the power to emancipate themselves. He urged them to unite, mobilize and organize themselves. He said that if the people did that and acted decisively, they could remove Burnham before yearend 1979.

To some people, what Dr Rodney said sounded far-fetched. Now, considering what happened fairly recently in Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring, Walter Rodney's message of self-emancipation was workable.

Essentially, Dr David Hinds is saying the same thing.

Regrettably, some people will read Hinds' message with race-tinted lens. And Massa Rohee and Ramotar are happy.

Just shut down the sugar industry, which is so deep in a hole of financial instability that it can no longer get out.

You have no interest in the economic plight of Africans, so why should I care about Indians?

Every time a black man calls attention to the fact that Africans have needs which ought to be addressed too he is called a racist.  Why?

You advocate keeping alive an industry where for every dollar of revenue earned TAX PAYERS must support a company which spends two dollars to do so.  WHY?  Sugar is DEAD.  Arrange a decent burial!

You are only concerned about the share that Indians get.  Too bad that Linden was destroyed and thousands lost their jobs because Guymine was no longer viable.

But definitely don't apply the same standards to Guysuco, because......Indians will suffer.

Well Indians should experience the same pain that blacks did when an industry, which is no longer viable, and which the gov't has no capacity to fix, is sold to private investors, who then do what suits them.

And are only Indian voters to be considered.  When last I checked there wasn't a majority race in Guyana so no one party can seriously think that it can run Guyana, even if it wins based on the support of one race.

We see the mess that the PPP is in, where it can't do what it wants because it doesn't control parliament because it has not made decent inroads in to the black and mixed voting blocs.

The onus is on the PPP, APNU and the AFC to address the needs of all Guyanese, and not just focusing on the whining laments of one group who think that an industry should be propped up when it is clear no gov't has the capacity to do that.

All that needs to be done to Guysuco is to prepare it for sale.  Both the PPP and the PNC contributed to its problems, so to expect either to fix it is pure nonsense.

Yet yu leader mr Granja in bed with ramutar.

Watch what he will do with the BUDGET.  GIve the PPP everything they want.

Granja sell out.

The Afro-Guyanese will continue to suffer once Carbin and Hammie and Granja continue to sell out.

Survival of the sugar industry in Guyana hinges on the successful operation of the modern sugar factory at Skeldon. This factory is supposed is to be highly efficient producing a pound of sugar at cost of $.11 or $.13. If this factory operates as promised then the industry can survive by becoming profitable. Profitability does not mean that we produce record number of tons of sugar. It means the revenues from the industry must exceed the expenses associated with the production of sugar. Mechanization is the works which will reduce the # of employees. The growth of tourism and other industries should help to absord those who can no longer find employment in the sugar industry.  I wish them well If this does not work then Guyana has to make a hard decision to either sell off the industry to investors or quickly transform it into a different business

David Hinds is one of the most racist Guyanese. He berates Indians every chance he gets. Pay no attention to this bankrupt fool

kishanB, i will deconstruct dis diseased ejaculate u post hay later

i thought it was yugee or 'conscience' posting at first . . . i start scratching meh head, then it dawned on me that there is no real intellectual daylight between committed racists when alyuh diving to the bottom in yuh obsession with blackman

PPP will govern Guyana for another 50 years. Majority or Minority.

Get used to it. PPP has Granger in their back pocket. The AFC will be wiped off the political map in Berbice at the next election.

A vote for the AFC = A vote for the dirty and rotten PNC.

heh heh heh . . . yugee in full out klown mode

prancing around as usual, braying hard and insistently (same ole, same ole) . . . actually saying very little

There is no way that you really want a black man who advocates for AfroGuyanese.  Any who do this will be called a racist by people like you, as you advocate for Guyana to remain an Indocracy run by a small corrupt cabal of thieves.

Then you should be happy because Granger will worry more about the Corentyne and then ambulance chase again to Linden when the "natives get restive", just as he did last time.

But this is the kind of negro who you all like, so what's your fuss.  David Hinds speaks out for blacks and you call him a racist.

Last time you all screamed.

1.  That you would get 60% of the votes.  You got 49%

2.  That you had major support among blacks.  The fact that the APNU was the only party whose votes significantly increased in 2011 put a lie to that.

With a diminishing Indian population and the PPPs failure to woo black and mixed votes the PPP has loads to worry about.

I guess that's why they refuse to release the results of the 2012 census, because the big drop in the Indian population really scares them, as does the fact that Berbice continues to lose population.

Please furnish evidence of this.

BTW advocating for blacks isn't being anti Indian.  Indeed the less blacks feel alienated the better life will be for Indians.  Think about that fact before you scream that only the concerns of Indians should be addressed, like suggesting that Guysuco remain stated owned when its clear that the PPP doesn't even begin to have the ability to run it.

An easy solution for Guysuco.  Sell it off to the Chinese, just as you sold off Guymine.  No way they are going to spend 40 cents only to earn 22 cents. No business will stay alive if they do that.

What is so precious about Guysuco why it must remain state owned? Apparently the medicine that you gave to Linden you are afraid to give to the Corentyne!

well . . . does dat make dem more 'dangerous' to Indo-Guyanese or less?

mek up yuh mind u short-term memory klown

Dont worry when they go and block up the ECD road, the EBD Road and the bridge in Linden, all of these people will scream.

They really think that they can put black people in a corner and ignore them without consequences.

What any sensible Indian needs to lose sleep about is whether black people will act on their alienation or not, and generally alienated people do eventually act out.

What this PPP clown doesnt understand is if trhey see Granger as a stooge then APNU has no control over them.  And the PPP definitely doesnt, as black people think that they represent the Devil.

So who will be able to speak to them and calm them down?

WHY YOU SAY THIS mIGHTY EXPOSER?

Gwan da side wid yuh text book solution.

Hinds was one of those who really fought against Burnham. If I remember well, Burnham's goons beat him up many times.

However, he does go off into hyper-racial analysis.

Many people in Berbice asked me to help them find jobs. But there are no govt jobs.  Afro folks have almost all the office jobs. When there is a vacancy, they bring in their relatives.  It's hard to get in unless someone gets you in.  In Guyana, once you get a job, you stay there till you die.

That's why the new AFC/APNU govt must create some diversity/affirmative action policies, so the workplace reflects the population.

Hinds need to get off the race baiting analysis that he likes to do. Playing the victim does not help his constituents. Don't see him becoming a minister- that would be terrible.  Probably put him on the ERC.

PPP failed to develop canning industries that can create jobs in the countryside.  Marriott matters more.

jay, i respectfully suggest that u haul your person out of 1985, or even 1995 with this stupid idea that there is a powerful class of blackman, in 2015 PPP Guyana, thwarting the ambitions of hapless Indo-Guyanese looking for civil service jobs

 . . . necessitating AFFIRMATIVE ACTION yet!!!

banna u must be quite senile or flat out MAD