EYEWITNESS: Picking the right leader…
…for the job
The PPP elected their presidential candidate through a procedure they’ve had for exactly fifty years: having their 35-member Central Committee vote by...
EYEWITNESS: The basis…
…corruption
It’s rather rich for the PNC types to tag the PPP as being irredeemably corrupt when in only three years there have been more...
EYEWITNESS: Rearguard actions…
…to cling to power
Your Eyewitness isn’t one to say, “I told you so”! Especially when what he told you it was as obvious as...
EYEWITNESS: Waiting to exhale…
…on “no confidence” elections
Over in Britain, Theresa May lost the parliamentary vote on the treaty she’d negotiated to exit the EU (“Brexit”) by a...
EYEWITNESS: Democracy…
…and blood
It’s said that “blood is thicker than water”. And this bit of folk wisdom was certainly reaffirmed when James McAllister, an old PNC...
EYEWITNESS: What…
…“constitutional crisis”??
Your Eyewitness has noted with more than a little consternation that some commentators are talking about a “constitutional crisis” in Guyana, after the...
EYEWITNESS: New…
…parties in Guyana
One of the founders of ANUG – A New and United Guyana – (to be launched this week) commented in his blog...
EYEWITNESS: Subverting…
…Article 106 (6)
The “Joint Communiqué” from the meeting between the President and the Opposition Leader was finally released late Thursday. Your Eyewitness wasn’t surprised that...
EYEWITNESS: After…
…THE meeting
All across Guyana, there was a pregnant pause in the national pulse as Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo met President David Granger yesterday to...
EYEWITNESS: Still going strong…
…PNC’s Aapan Jhaat
While “voting for your own” is a constant in every divided society – be it along religious, cultural, race, colour, ethnicity, whatever...