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Originally posted by TI:

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Originally posted by Realist:

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Originally posted by TI:
At least the man got a job. You need to improve your skillset and start updating your resume instead of wasting time posting here.

Banna dis aint no joke . CV all updated...looking fuh leads. Its a serious question.

Where? in Guyana?

Of course in Guyana. You sound surprised? Well don't be I am accessing the Internet on my free laptop compliments of the Olpf.just need a real job now....

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Originally posted by TI:
You live in Canada and are an expert on Guyanese lifestyle? I know people in Guyana who refuse to leave and even went back to live.

As I said been there done that.

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Originally posted by Realist:


Of course in Guyana. You sound surprised? Well don't be I am accessing the Internet on my free laptop compliments of the Olpf.just need a real job now....

See how good you are? I can't even afford internet services. I have to go to the library and borrow their computers.

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Originally posted by TI:

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Originally posted by Realist:


Of course in Guyana. You sound surprised? Well don't be I am accessing the Internet on my free laptop compliments of the Olpf.just need a real job now....

See how good you are? I can't even afford internet services. I have to go to the library and borrow their computers.

Ssssh. Ah depon de OP wireless ....It's wide open .

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Originally posted by TI:
You live in Canada and are an expert on Guyanese lifestyle? I know people in Guyana who refuse to leave and even went back to live.

you talking about rohee and green.we know why they cant leave

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Originally posted by warrior: you is a ass under the pnc guyana use to produce 6 different kind of milk,and also make their own cheese also yogert.in north america they is lot of different kind of milk,some is made to suit the public that need a different diet.some is for medical reason.but any government will try and get their citizen to drink fresh milk.and you work for the government and is a complete fool,the government have a dairy program where they inport semiem for cattle for production of milk and they spend millions on this program ask steve surajballi.oh heck guy one more scam

Clearly you have communist ideals. It is not the job of Govt to force people to embrace proper nutrition. Nor is it the job of govt to produce milk and cheese. This is a task for private enterprise. Govt can only suggest, but not force people to eat and drink local products. Remember this is what Burnham tried and we had the famous rice flour roti and black eye dhall. ahahhahahahah

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Originally posted by BGurd_See:

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Originally posted by warrior: you is a ass under the pnc guyana use to produce 6 different kind of milk,and also make their own cheese also yogert.in north america they is lot of different kind of milk,some is made to suit the public that need a different diet.some is for medical reason.but any government will try and get their citizen to drink fresh milk.and you work for the government and is a complete fool,the government have a dairy program where they inport semiem for cattle for production of milk and they spend millions on this program ask steve surajballi.oh heck guy one more scam

Clearly you have communist ideals. It is not the job of Govt to force people to embrace proper nutrition. Nor is it the job of govt to produce milk and cheese. This is a task for private enterprise. Govt can only suggest, but not force people to eat and drink local products. Remember this is what Burnham tried and we had the famous rice flour roti and black eye dhall. ahahhahahahah

its the job of the government to build hotels.maybe the governmnet should stop the ARG projects that assists the farmers,the pax payers will save millions.i feel that i am talking to a little child,here it goes.you know we have a little country next to guyana name trinidad,well the government in that country have a state of the art plant for farmers that produce milk,it could be cow,goat or buffalo they also have a program in place to help the farmers get a fair price for their milk.fresh milk sould be a concern for all government not only for farmers but also the ministry of health

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

Great!

That is very commendable to see you value "quality of life". Work/life balance is critical to good health.

Notice you not commented on the need to live in a more evolved and egalitarian society.

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

Great!

That is very commendable to see you value "quality of life". Work/life balance is critical to good health.

Notice you not commented on the need to live in a more evolved and egalitarian society.

my brother remember the man say he is a simple man.you want to hurt the man head with them big words.

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Originally posted by warrior:

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

Warrior,

Da man is a multi-million US dollar millionaire living in Guyana. The income from his assets provide him with enough income to live for the rest of his life with out working. Only problem is he cannot step outside his front gate without stepping into shit/garbage. And he has 11 foot concrete fence around his yard with 24 hour security and two doberman named Bharrat & Ramotar.

What a life! Paradise.

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Notice you not commented on the need to live in a more evolved and egalitarian society.

I lived in a foreign land as a student, though not English Speaking, I always felt insignificant and unwelcomed. A total Egalitarianism Society seems to be a myth, especially in Guyana. I acknowledge that social services etc are not up to 1st world standards, I perfer to play my cards here in Guyana, than to work a 9-5 in North America.

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:

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Originally posted by warrior:

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

Warrior,

Da man is a multi-million US dollar millionaire living in Guyana. The income from his assets provide him with enough income to live for the rest of his life with out working. Only problem is he cannot step outside his front gate without stepping into shit/garbage. And he has 11 foot concrete fence around his yard with 24 hour security and two doberman named Bharrat & Ramotar.

What a life! Paradise.

he trow away his paaport because he cannot travell,the DEA is waiting for him to step out of guyana.lots of these drug dealers get rich with ppp crime family,but guyana is their jail.

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if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

I am contented ecomically...

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Originally posted by alex:

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Notice you not commented on the need to live in a more evolved and egalitarian society.

I lived in a foreign land as a student, though not English Speaking, I always felt insignificant and unwelcomed. A total Egalitarianism Society seems to be a myth, especially in Guyana. I acknowledge that social services etc are not up to 1st world standards, I perfer to play my cards here in Guyana, than to work a 9-5 in North America.

What makes you believe living in North America means working 9 to 5? North America is the land of opportunity for genuine entrepreneurs. You are one aren't you? For example, no need to kiss Bharrat or Ifart Ali's ass for a simple permit.

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Originally posted by alex:

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If what you have posted is true (and I very much doubt this) then you will vote for accountability and transparency. That is a more evolved society.

Guess what? I smile when 'foreigners' come back home and with their accents and rich talk. I rarely work 7 hours a day, my days are usually 5.
I am self employed and I am successful because I made quite a few good business deals.

Alex could you be kind enough to sponsor one day a month to feed the homeless children at an orphange?

Could you also donate 1 hour of your earnings to a foundation that offer ssholarships to a poor and deserving high school student?

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Originally posted by alex:

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if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

I am contented ecomically...

Great!

Now are economical needs your only needs?

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Originally posted by alex:

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if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

I am contented ecomically...

well you sound like you have every thing, all you have to do now is celebrate your sucess,with kwame and bar--rat,walk with your own condons

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Originally posted by warrior:

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Originally posted by alex:

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if i was you i will sell my bike and buy a plane,you will get lots more bussiness deals.then you can work i hr

I am contented ecomically...

well you sound like you have every thing, all you have to do now is celebrate your sucess,with kwame and bar--rat,walk with your own condons

One happy party!

You sound like kwame bugger you; you always talking bout the man

Not every successful Guyanese are doing drugs. I know quite a few friends that own businesses that are making money here:

Food (Restaurant)
Legal Services
Accounting Services
Auto Spares
Auto Sales
Import (most things)
Money Transfer
Cambio

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warrior

How did this conversation get to your gutter level?

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Originally posted by alex:
he trow away his paaport because he cannot travell,the DEA is waiting for him to step out of guyana.lots of these drug dealers get rich with ppp crime family,but guyana is their jail.

Not every successful Guyanese are doing drugs. I know quite a few friends that own businesses that are making money here:

Food (Restaurant)
Legal Services
Accounting Services
Auto Spares
Auto Sales
Import (most things)
Money Transfer
Cambio

You sound like you have quite a few friends that are running money laundering operations.

Why is it when a Guyanese in Guyana is successful, he has to be denigrated?

Is Gerhard in the drug business?

no

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Why is it when a Guyanese in Guyana is successful, he has to be denigrated?

Because he is a Fullah like you.

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warrior

How did this conversation get to your gutter level?

Only level he understand. He failed GED

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Mitwah

I will try to do more Charity work here in Guyana. I usually sponsor the uniform of a sports team here, but I promised myself to assist the orphans in Guyana.

Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

same here.i come to north america for my family.come on guys this fool is playing you guys

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

I would rather take my chances here, I worked hard and built my life in Guyana. I am apprehensive about starting over in a foreign land, especially since I have lived overseas already. Most of my friends and family are here, I have a nice circle around and would feel I am missing quite a bit of life.

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Originally posted by warrior:

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

same here.i come to north america for my family.come on guys this fool is playing you guys

Alex, like TI, is a pious Fullah and only subscribes to the highest standards of morality.

and regret it...

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Originally posted by TI:
You live in Canada and are an expert on Guyanese lifestyle? I know people in Guyana who refuse to leave and even went back to live.

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Originally posted by alex:

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

I would rather take my chances here, I worked hard and built my life in Guyana. I am apprehensive about starting over in a foreign land, especially since I have lived overseas already. Most of my friends and family are here, I have a nice circle around and would feel I am missing quite a bit of life.

I like a decisive man. Peace.

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Originally posted by alex:

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

I would rather take my chances here, I worked hard and built my life in Guyana. I am apprehensive about starting over in a foreign land, especially since I have lived overseas already. Most of my friends and family are here, I have a nice circle around and would feel I am missing quite a bit of life.

have a nice life and vote ppp

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Originally posted by warrior:

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Originally posted by alex:

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Allright Alex,

Let me level with you. Like you, I own extreme high end properties in Guyana (no mortgage). Both residential and commercial. I also own properties in North America.

I left Guyana because my wife and children deserve to live without fear. No amount of money can compensate for that.

Do you wish the same for your family? What comes first? Your lifestyle or the well being of your wife and child?

I would rather take my chances here, I worked hard and built my life in Guyana. I am apprehensive about starting over in a foreign land, especially since I have lived overseas already. Most of my friends and family are here, I have a nice circle around and would feel I am missing quite a bit of life.

have a nice life and vote ppp

Vote AFC and you’ll have a wonderful life overseas and of course with a strong KFC diet.

Guyanese President Leaves a Tattered Legacy
by COHA Research Associates Robert Cavooris & Elcin Chang

Stagnation, violence, corruption, arch-sectarianism, and unfettered crime—this is the heritage that President Bharrat Jagdeo will bequeath to his country. Now that Jagdeo has announced that he will not seek a third term in the upcoming August election, he may well ask, as a New York mayor once did, “How did I do?” The answer, in this instance, must be: “terribly.” Chosen by former President Janet Jagan to succeed her in office, and supposedly held in high esteem by Guyana’s founding father, the illustrious Cheddi Jagan, Jagdeo could only receive the lowest of marks from any independent evaluation. Through his tolerance of crime, racism, and dismal social progress, President Jagdeo has turned in a fifth-rate performance as president of one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere. As the Guyanese use every strategy, legal and illegal, to flee the dysfunctional country, Jagdeo will go down in history as a man who did almost nothing for his nation while in office.

Jagdeo in Command?

As Guyana was wrestling with ever-present ethnic and political tensions, Jagdeo ascended to the presidency in 1999, not by election but rather through the anointment of his predecessor, Janet Jagan, thus taking the helm with no popular electoral mandate. To his credit, Jagdeo has led Guyana on a path of considerable economic growth in the last ten years despite a devastating flood in 2005. The Guyanese economy, which is heavily dependent on the export of six main commodities—rice, timber, gold, bauxite, shrimp and sugar—has expanded at an average rate of 3 percent over the past decade.1Sadly however, despite this incremental improvement in the Guyanese economy, government officials have been either unwilling or unable to share this modest prosperity with average Guyanese citizens.

Indicative of this trend is the fact that the allocation for education as a percentage of government spending is significantly lower than it was ten years ago. Public spending on education dropped to 6.1 percent of total GDP in 2007, down from 8.5 percent in 2000. Because of this lack of adequate spending on public education, the percentage of primary school entrance-age children enrolled in such schools dropped from 91.8 percent to 62.0 percent.2 While it is difficult to speculate precisely what effect these substantive budget cuts on education have had on childhood literacy rates in the country (owing to a lack of data collected by Georgetown officials), there could be pernicious social consequences if education continues to take a back seat on the Guyanese agenda.

On healthcare, there have been some positive results including an increase in life expectancy and a notable decrease in infant mortality.3 Many exigencies however remain unaffected. For instance, about a fifth of the Guyanese population still lacks access to clean sanitation facilities.4 And the World Health Organization estimated that Guyana has one of the highest prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean.5

Perpetual Violence
Jagdeo’s tenure will also be remembered for the spike in violent crimes experienced throughout Guyana, an issue exacerbated by repeated extrajudicial killings on the part of state authorities. Since 2001, “Phantom” death squads with alleged connections to government agencies—also called the “Black Clothes Police”—have been linked to some 400 murders.6 7 “A clear pattern is emerging,” said a member of the opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNC). “The Black Clothes Police have constituted themselves accusers, judge, jury and executioners, and have been gunning down people with impunity.”8

The Jagdeo administration shocked the region by rejecting a request by the United States, Britain, and Canada to do an independent probe of what amounted to repeated human rights violations. “We are very concerned about the allegations and we believe that the integrity of the government is something that is at question here,” said British High Commissioner Stephen Hiscock9 Amnesty International wrote an open letter to President Jagdeo in 2001 demanding prosecution of any officials involved in extrajudicial violence, and saying that the Guyanese government had “repeatedly failed to ensure the protection of the internationally recognized fundamental right to life—and to take measures to prevent such killings.”10 Although several officers were indicted for their participation in extrajudicial killings in 2004, none were convicted.11

Some have responded in kind to the state violence, such as in the notorious Rondell Rawlins case. Rawlins, who accused the government of kidnapping his girlfriend, waged a campaign of terror in Guyana seeking her return. This resulted in the shocking deaths of 23 people.12 Jagdeo’s tumultuous presidency was also beset by a series of fatal bombings over the past several years, including one attack on the Ministry of Health in 2009 and two additional assaults in 2011—one at the Stabroek Market and the other at the residence of Philomena Sahoye-Shury, a leading member of President Jagdeo’s People’s Progressive Party (PPP).13 As one editorial in Guyana’s Stabroek News put it, “The security situation grows murkier by the day and it is in this milieu that there has been a rash of dangerous events.”14

Ethnicity and Frustration
The violence in Guyana is all the bitterer for the ethnic undertones that color it. Guyana’s motto—‘One People, One Nation, One Destiny,’—only seems a cruel joke in the face of the stark division that has long seized the country—a division that Jagdeo has done almost nothing to address.

Party affiliation in Guyana falls almost directly along ethnic lines. Jagdeo’s PPP overwhelmingly receives the vote of the Guyanese of Indian descent, while the opposition PNC garners the support of the country’s African descendents. One study of the 2001 elections called the crossover votes between ethnic groups “insubstantial” and concluded that “[PPP] is still, for all practical purposes, an Indian-dominated party.” 15 Even after the 2006 election, Jagdeo’s efforts to diminish the trend were nowhere to be seen. One editorial in the Stabroek News in 2010 commented that the two main parties still remain within their ethnic platform. It said, “Both [the PPP and PNC] follow an unwritten rule that their leader must be from a particular ethnic group and both derive a high percentage of their support from a single ethnic group.”16

Often, crimes in Guyana take on a racial dimension, reflecting the continued perception of the longstanding Afro-Guyanese exclusion under the PPP. In 2007, Andre Douglas, an alleged murderer of African descent who was eventually killed by police after escaping from jail, placed his own crimes in the context of social marginalization and inequality. He called himself a “freedom fighter,” and said, “Look into innocent black Guyanese problems or unrest will not finish.”17 In other words, Douglas would keep terrorizing Guyana until the social problems of the Afro-Guyanese were alleviated. The large turnout at Douglas’ funeral showed that his frustration resonated with the country’s Afro-Guyanese community. Thus, ethnic division remains a challenge that disrupts quotidian life in Guyana, and that President Jagdeo has not effectively taken steps to resolve.

Conclusions
On balance, Jagdeo has failed during his presidency to advance the freedom and fairness of Guyanese public life, or the inequities of the Indo-Guyanese dominated society. Increased economic growth is futile if it does not translate into a greater sense of prosperity within the entirety of society. Jagdeo’s two-term presidency fell woefully short on that point. Social needs remain unmet due to inadequate spending on education and a lack of efforts to improve the quality of healthcare. Furthermore the perpetual presence of criminal and ethnic violence threatens the fabric of Guyanese society, and, if anything, has been aggravated by the indiscriminate violence of public security forces in response.
It is not yet clear who the candidates will be in the upcoming presidential election, but whoever inherits Jagdeo’s position must work to tackle these persistent issues, and to clear the air of hopelessness when it comes to improving life in one of the hemisphere’s poorest and most forlorn countries.

References for this article are available here

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Originally posted by Rahmah bin Jabr:
Alex, like TI, is a pious Fullah and only subscribes to the highest standards of morality.

Is Fullah Alex and TI wuss than Hindu Jagdeo and Ramotar?