Time for government to seriously consider calling fresh elections:
Written by WILBERT M. STEPHENSON Brooklyn, New York
Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:38
I’M writing with reference to an article in the Chronicle in which it was stated that, "Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has expressed Cabinet’s concern over the continuing unilateral engagements between the two Parliamentary Opposition parties, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC)". My only surprise is that the PPP/C government is taking an inordinately long time to recognise that the PNC remains an inveterate cradle of race-based politics lurking behind the facade of opposition alliance and outsmarting its less nimble-witted associates to take operational and directional control of that alliance.
The PNC must understand that its tenuous hold on decisive political authority was made possible only by indirect and significant Indian Guyanese voter support. There are signs that the PNC of the sixties is beginning to resurrect itself in new garb.
The YSM is now the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT), but the ever-present boorish thuggery is the same. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that these developments have begun to give rise to serious disquiet among Indian-Guyanese.
They voted the way they did in the hope that a counter-weight opposition would be in a position to engage in robust but co-operative interaction with the government aimed at hammering out practical, realistic, and nationally beneficial policies and programmes. This is not what they are seeing.
It is time for the government to seriously consider calling fresh elections in order to secure an effective mandate from all Guyanese who want to live in a land of peace, harmony, and prosperity. We do not want to go back to the troubling periods of our past.
Written by WILBERT M. STEPHENSON Brooklyn, New York
Thursday, 26 January 2012 22:38
I’M writing with reference to an article in the Chronicle in which it was stated that, "Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has expressed Cabinet’s concern over the continuing unilateral engagements between the two Parliamentary Opposition parties, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance For Change (AFC)". My only surprise is that the PPP/C government is taking an inordinately long time to recognise that the PNC remains an inveterate cradle of race-based politics lurking behind the facade of opposition alliance and outsmarting its less nimble-witted associates to take operational and directional control of that alliance.
The PNC must understand that its tenuous hold on decisive political authority was made possible only by indirect and significant Indian Guyanese voter support. There are signs that the PNC of the sixties is beginning to resurrect itself in new garb.
The YSM is now the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT), but the ever-present boorish thuggery is the same. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that these developments have begun to give rise to serious disquiet among Indian-Guyanese.
They voted the way they did in the hope that a counter-weight opposition would be in a position to engage in robust but co-operative interaction with the government aimed at hammering out practical, realistic, and nationally beneficial policies and programmes. This is not what they are seeing.
It is time for the government to seriously consider calling fresh elections in order to secure an effective mandate from all Guyanese who want to live in a land of peace, harmony, and prosperity. We do not want to go back to the troubling periods of our past.