Quote "Government has complained bitterly that its programmes and policies are being frustrated by the opposition – APNU and Alliance For Change (AFC) – using its one seat majority to vote down aspects of the National Budget and block the enactment of certain laws." unquote

NB: All APNU and AFC is asking for is to desist from crooked deals, put everything overboard, meaning that if you spend GY$10 M, show us how GY$10 M were spend.

The Crooked PPP/C will never understand that. When Jagan died, the PPP died with him........now there are sheer crooks

The voting public does not want to hear about 'broad left electoral strategy'

which poor working class man or woman will know what "broad left electoral strategy" means? I wonder which crabdwag from the PPP/C formulated this garbage..........The Corrupt PPP/C must know that the voting public wants bread on their table to feed their family, they wants house lots so that they can stop paying rents, they want jobs for their children when those children finished school. But yet these crooked PPP/C wants "BROAD LEFT ELECTORAL STRATEGY"

How fooked up the current buch of dummies are in the PPP/C, they do not know their arse from their brains.

This is all a smoke screen and political gaff from Rohee.  He meant none of it.  The PPP has a new ideology,  Tief, tek and lie down.

What do you think YUJI?

i think the left fall which year rohee live in

What a smokescreen for more stealing. 

Rohee is regurgitating the civic component of the PPP. Thjat is nothing new.

Foeming new parties and repeating past strategy is a way of political life in Guyana.

This is Rohee thinking out of his arse.  Look haul yu xxx Rohee!

Dream on Mr. Rohee!

Dear Editor,
Surprise! Surprise! So the PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee has been reading his Marxist/Leninist literature again, but now that he is awaken from his slumber, he is more than two decades late.
His archaic way of thinking is no longer relevant in Guyanese society. Is he selling dictatorship to his PPP supporters? Is he berating/belittling or abandoning one of their stalwart supporters—the individual who convinced them that the PPP will win a landslide victory with 63% of the votes in the 2011 election?
As Mr. Rohee tries to salvage what little support is left of the PPP, he must know that the “political hogwash” he is spewing cannot turn the clock back for the PPP – the majority of Guyanese have spoken in the last election and they have permanently abandoned them.
But in addition to the PPP losing more of its former supporters every day (the rural folks, the farmers, the working class), the corrupt elements who control the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal will never allow him to establish a “broad left, progressive, democratic front”, since such a front will demand accountability, transparency, good governance and an end to corruption.
Can the Jagdeo cabal handle accountability and transparency? Would they want corruption to end? Mr. Rohee ought to know that before they could regain any support, the PPP must lower the toll on the Berbice Bridge to $1,000 for cars and mini-buses and allow free passage for motorcycles, reduce VAT by 2 percent, give the workers a 15 percent increase and increase the pension for elders from $12,500 per month to $20,000 per month, in addition to reducing crime and corruption.
Does Mr. Rohee think that the greedy and powerful Jagdeo cabal in the PPP will implement any of the above issues? Would they allow free and transparent tendering for the multi-billion dollar procurement contract for medical supplies to slip out of their grasp? That is G$600 million lost for them every year. Dream on Rohee!
There is nothing broad or nothing leftist about the way the current Ramotar administration conducts itself.  The reality is the Jagdeo cabal within the Ramotar administration are extremely narrow-minded, greedy people who are not prepared to share the wealth of the nation with anyone else but themselves and there is nothing leftist about them.
Actually, they operate more like extreme capitalists who want to devour all the resources in the country. They have already raped the treasury and have taken the best lands for themselves, and have pawned the country’s natural resources to their friends.
So rest yourself Mr. Rohee and stop talking political froth and get real. We know you are “bazadee” at this point in time as the crime wave exposes your gross incompetence, but it is no excuse for political fantasy. The decent thing to do is to deal with the crime issue and stop interfering with the daily operations of the police rather than blow a smoke screen for the people with these empty and balderdash statements to hide the truth.
The truth is the PPP is losing political support every single day because of its inept policies, lack of trust and its crooked ways, and that reality will not change before the next General Elections. If we are wrong, we dare Mr. Rohee and the PPP to call General Elections in 2014.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

Nothing left of the Left

How can there be a broad Left Front when there is no Left? From the PNC to the PPP, the Left in Guyana has left; they have abandoned ship and joined forces with the Right.
It hardly therefore makes sense to speak about a broad Left Front because even considering that this Front will comprise of persons and groupings that are not necessarily of the Left, it is a misnomer to speak about a Left Front when there is nothing left of the Left in Guyana.
The PPP is no longer a Left-leaning party. It is no longer even a Marxist-Leninist Party. Its constitution may speak to such orientations but in practice the PPP is controlled by a powerful economic class that is capitalist in nature and one that is predatory and ravenous in its desire to appropriate the wealth of the country.
Why then this absurdity of announcing that the PPP will go into the next elections with a broad Left Front? Is it a case that the PPP wants to broaden its support base but lacks imagination and vision to come up with the appropriate formula?
You cannot have a broad Left Front if there are no leftist parties. You cannot have a broad Front that comprises of only one Left-leaning party. And there are no Left-leaning parties left in Guyana.
The WPA was once a Left- leaning party. But no sooner did the Americans invade Grenada that the WPA capitulated to geographic fatalism: the idea that the Americans would never allow a Leftist government in the western hemisphere.
The WPA was more interested in its survival than in standing up for what it believed in. And so it jumped ship even before the ship was in danger. Long before the Cold War ended, the WPA rebranded itself Rodneyite, which is really as absurd as the PPP invocation of a broad Left Front, because Rodney was a Marxist, an unapologetic Marxist.
The PPP at least saw out the end of the Cold War without disavowing its ideology. It stayed faithful to its Marxist- Leninist credentials. But in 1991, with the prospects of political power dangled in front of the party and with the business community opportunistically ingratiating itself to the party, the PPP issued a statement indicating that the building of socialism was no longer on the cards. This was a tepid ideological retreat but a retreat nonetheless.
After Cheddi Jagan died and Mrs. Jagan’s presidency became untenable  by her political opponents, the capitalist class made its move on the party, capitalizing on the ideological vacuum that had been created.
The party eventually capitulated to the business class but there was  subsequently another coup within the party, which saw a new oligarchy comprising of just a few persons and entities use their tremendous financial resources and their closeness to the political directorate to commandeer control of the party.
When the PPP today speaks of a broad Left Front, it is not so much of an electoral strategy. The old leaders of the party are in effect attempting to retake the party. They are attempting to do so by claiming to be Leftwing. But are they really?
The PPP has become almost totally dependent on the new economic oligarchy for financial support. The party structures that, for example, allowed for fund raising were all neglected because the party was awash with resources from the new oligarchy.
The contributions from the new oligarchy, indeed from the business community, always come with strings attached. The business community does not support the PPP because they love the party or its ideology; the donations to the party’s electoral coffers are investments by the business community to secure favors in the future.
Traditionally, the PPP used to enjoy strong financial backing from its supporters within the Diaspora. But during the 2011 elections campaign that Diaspora abandoned the PPP.
A fund raising event held in New York turned out to a disaster. The leadership clearly understood then that it could no longer rely on its overseas supporters for any substantial assistance.
These supporters had either passed on or were aged; their descendants could not give a hoot about the new princes that controlled the party. This abandonment by a strong financial base pushed the PPP further into the clutches of the new oligarchy.
The idea of a broad Left Front will therefore not gain any currency unless the party begins to put distance between itself and the powerful economic class that controls it.
And based on the rumors that some leading party activists are being bankrolled by the new oligarchs, reclaiming the party for the Left is a near impossible task.

PPP seeing their support dwindling every day. What do they do when they are desperate? Drag out the ghosts of Cheddi and Janet and proclaim that they are returning to their communist past. Little do they realize that Guyanese today are not interested in Communism. They have seen the failures that communism has brought in their own country as well as in other places around the world.

For how long will the ghost of the Jagan's survive with the young East Indians like Sara Bharaat?

That young lady is swaying the opinion in GT.  The PPP is finished when it comes to winning the 50 % majority.

Does Rohee really understand what is the BROAD LEFT?  Idiot!

The Broad Left was a political faction in the UK during the 1970s. It consisted of a working relationship between the Labour Party, the Liberal Party, Plaid Cymru, the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and other, non-aligned, supporters in order to work as a single voting bloc against the Conservative. 

Guyana does not have a Communist Party, the PPP is not a communist party, they just label themselves so, they are rabid plunderers of the Treasury to enrich a few and starving the many  - that is not communism or socialism.

The Labour Party of the UK is connected with the working class, the PPP has abandoned the working class.

So do you think the small rice farmer who is flooded out right now in Mahaica want anything to do with the PPP politically?

Do you think the sugar worker who lives in poverty on the estates want to be identified with the PPP.

So Rohee talking out of his arse.  Look haul yu'  axx Clement.