If it walks like a dictator, it is a dictator. If it quacks like a dictator, it is a dictator. 

It seems the dictator tag is getting to them

Look if you have the police deferring to the Office of the President for permission to grant a permit for an opposition Rally, that is a dictatorship.

When you have a president working with the DPP to setup citizens and frame them for crimes they did not commit and then fire those individuals and refuse to pay them their pensions etc. That is a dictatorship.

You have an attorney general on tape hollering how he has people that can kill staff at a major newspaper, admitting on that same tape that he stole government funds to pay for some bullshit with his wife and the President doesn't fire him that is a dictatorship.

You have the AG's wife on facebook admitting he stole money and she told him to pay it back and he still deh pun de wuk that is a dictatorship.

You have the PPP taking state money to build a bridge and then repaying private citizens and handing over the asset to their cronies claiming it is a private venture when we damn well know that it was built with tax payers money that is a dictatorship.

You have laws in the Procurement commission that were signed by a PPP president and they refuse to enact and enforce those laws and create the PPC. that is wanton disregard of the constitution that is a dictatorship.

You have a government which has refused to hold local govt elections for 20+ years and they are still refusing to call local government elections that is a dictatorship.

I can go on for another 100 items to show this is a dictatorship.

N. K. Gopaul can say what he wants. There is no parliamentary democracy in Guyana since November 10. Ramotar is not de jure dictator. He is de facto dictator. He is governing the country after locking out opposition MPs who controlled 51.3 percent of the National Assembly. Effectively, Ramotar is running a one-party state.

Only a jackass would believe that a country's leader who can't pass a bill in parliament is a dictator. Hoyte claimed 78% of votes in the 1985 elections and yet some have chosen to credit him for the return of democray to Guyana. 

LIARS! LIARS! LIARS!!!!!

Billy Ram, you should take a course in Political Science. A dictator does not need bills or parliament. He rules without bills. He authorizes the spending of public funds without bills.

That is the point.  Ramotar doesn't think that he needs to pass a bill.  He thinks he can do what he wants and not have to answer to anybody while doing it.

That is a dictator.

The PNC rigged elections.  The PPP tries to avoid having them.

Its just different ways of being a dictator.

Billy Old Ram Goat Balgobin you are a dunce. A dictator is a ruler who doesn't have the support of the people and wants to rule. Donald the dharpoke is afraid of the MONC. Why?

Oh lord! the opposition has been able to stop the hydopower project and reduced budgetary allocations to many areas of the economy. The gov't was able to get around the ridiculous allocation of $1 for the office the president by taking the matter to court. The court interpreted the opposition's cuts as unconstitutional and allowed the gov't to continue spending in areas that are absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of gov't and prevent a state of anarchy. The PPP did not override any opposition's budget cuts on its own. Justice Ian Chang reminded the opposition and gov't. that it is the duty of the courts to interpret the constitution and not the national assembly. Neither the gov't nor the opposition can pass any bill that violates the constitution of Guyana. The constitution is the law of the land and all must abide by it. 

Can the Republic control congress pass a bill denying Obama and his entire executive branch of funds?  That cannot happen even if the Republicans control 95% of the congress. Why? The constitution is there to protect the interests of the minority and from the tyranny of the majority. The court can and will declare any politically vindictive move under guise as unconstitutional as is the case in Guyana's parliament.

Gilbakka, an Accrabre scholar like you need to re-evaluate your political education.

Gilly goat you are indeed a dunce.

The Alliance For Change continues to note the flurry of public statements attributed to President Donald Ramotar on his desire for “Dialogue” with the opposition.

Most recently in his press conference of Friday November 14, 2014 he declared “Dialogue is the preferred way to go.” 

The AFC notes with alarm that the President now clearly believes the political rhetoric and propaganda he has spewed for most of this year and in the process has either forgotten or has lost touch with reality. 

The Alliance For Change will therefore refresh the President’s memory as he has clearly forgotten that the last time he extended an invitation to the parliamentary opposition to meet at a tripartite level was on February 26, 2014. 

Nearly nine months have passed and in that time we Guyanese have swam in a sea of conflict and confrontation which has plagued President Ramotar’s administration, during which time his government has displayed no attempt to engage the majority parliamentary opposition in dialogue.

Public records will show that since February 2014 President Ramotar has placed emphasis on meeting key private sector organisations and stakeholder groups on a range of contentious issues ranging from passage of the anti money laundering legislation to the current constitutional crisis.

At no point in time was the joint parliamentary opposition invited to participate in talks of any kind!

At the end of June 2014, the AFC in correspondence to the President laid out its 10-point list of areas of concern.

This included demands for the upholding of the non-negotiable provisions of Guyana’s constitution, namely the establishment of the public procurement commission, the local government commission, and the human rights commission, the holding of local government election after an absence of more than two decades. The appointment of opposition members to state boards, the halting of illegal spending and the holding of “meaningful tripartite talks” to reach consensus on a security reform strategy and job creation opportunities for unemployed youth was raised amongst other things.

On July 17, 2014 the AFC again wrote the President highlighting the Party’s deep concern over the unauthorized and unconstitutional withdrawals from the consolidated fund by the Minister of Finance.

This we highlighted was in direct contravention to Article 217 of the Guyana constitution and section 16 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act.

The AFC on that occasion signaled its intention under article 106 (6) of the constitution of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to lay a motion of No Confidence against the Ramotar government as no other option appeared in sight.

This motion was eventually laid on August 10, 2014 with no engagement during the more than three-month period of parliamentary recess.

The Alliance For Change therefore remains surprised at Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon’s recent statement that the “PPP-C went the extra mile”.

This and the President’s ramblings this last week can only be viewed with the skepticism it deserves.

After all Mr. President –

your actions speak louder than your words.

The Alliance For Change

reminds private sector groups,

stakeholders and

civil society of these facts.

Sorry to disappoint you, Billy Ram. I never attended Accabre College. [Please note the correct spelling of Accabre.]

I suppose you mean Billy goat, HM_R. Your finger slip is excused.

hehehehe very good catch there Mr. Editor.

I meant Billy Goat the Maccabre top brain washing school scholar. He got the Rohee Prize for best student.

This fellow by his own standard set in his previous advocacy is a dictator. By those standards also he is a crook.

They Hydro plant needed to be stopped. It was a bloated graft filled porker laden with opportunities for PPP theft and the nations loss. It was a good thing it went down.

No court is a replacement for parliament. It cannot legislate from the bench what the president can spend or not. It can interpret the constitution but not chain the hands of legislators to control fraud. The PPP did not only overrode the opposition they spent as they saw fit without legislative authority.

Obama has no financial allocation prerogative. He cannot make a budget and have it be the law as Romatar wants it to be. The US congress has that authority alone The President proposes they cut at they see fit and sent the edited bill to him if it pass both chambers. Obama lives currently by stopgap allocation since the congress has not given him a budget