President Irfaan Ali delivered a masterstroke on Thursday last in his address to the opening sitting of the new session of theNational Assembly. What was anticipated to be a routine report to the nation about progress made over the past year and prospects for the coming year, turned out to be much more. The President used the opportunity to announce a […]
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SUPPLIER DIVERSITY
The level and value of governmental procurement has escalated to such a height that, having regard to Guyana’s ethnic diversity, an entrenched, law-based, programme of supplier diversity is rapidly becoming a necessity. Such progammes do not exist in developing countries such as Guyana. But it exists in many developed countries in North America and Europe. The United States, which has had a long history of discrimination […]
GUYANA – SHADES OF AUTOCRACY?
In an article published in SN on August 27 – “Whither Guyana: Autocracy or democracy?” Dr. Bertrand Ramcharan, a former senior UN official and regular contributor to SN, concludes that in Guyana there are “shades” of autocracy. The events that give rise to the “shades” are: “official inquisitions into the tax status of NGOs; calls […]
POLITICS AND THE NATIONAL TOSHAOS’ CONFERENCE
The annual National Toshaos Conference took place during last week and was addressed by President Ali. In his address the President emphasised the contribution that his government has made to the development of Amerindian communities. He pointed to increased budget allocations, extensive distribution of land titles, direct allocation of increased earnings from carbon credit and […]
A REVIEW OF SHARED GOVERNANCE AND WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE
The phrases ‘shared’ governance’ and ‘winner-take-all’ were introduced into Guyana’s political lexicon in the mid 1970s by the ever-resourceful Cheddi Jagan. At that time the PNC had given itself a two-third majority of votes and seats in the National Assembly at the 1973 general elections. It placed the PPP on the backfoot by the nationalization […]