The View from Europe: The Summit of the Americas and Venezuela
Published on March 21, 2015- By David Jessop In a few weeks time President Obama will make a one day visit to Jamaica. There, in addition to a number of relatively brief national encounters, he will meet with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government. This summit is a belated follow up to a promise the US president made in April 2009 when he met in Trinidad with regional leaders in the margins of the fifth Summit of the Americas. Since then there have been encounters with Vice President Biden, at which the predominant focus has been on security and energy; exchanges that at times have not been easy, as to a significant extent the US’s regional preoccupations have not been those of CARICOM, and the approaches discussed have lacked accompanying funding. |
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Guyana’s elections- It is all about numbers – analysis by GHK Lall + video interview
Also view video: GHK Lall being interviewed (June 2013), by Christopher Ram on his book “Sitting on a Recial Volcano” – a discussion on racial politics in Guyana.
Guyana’s elections- It is all about numbers – analysis by GHK Lall
Friday, 20 March 2015 – Written by GHK Lall
It is all in the numbers, and numbers don’t lie. Guyanese know that talk of numbers during an election season is talk of race. When the numbers were comforting, and a solid cushion of confidence existed, there was no need for any appeal of any kind at Babu John; or anywhere else for that matter. Or to identify the ruling PPP as being of this or that particular kind of party.
Instead, all efforts were focused on trashing and demonizing the opposition. But now there is open appeal, crude appeal (no matter how sanitized), and desperate appeals that start with the numbers. What follows is a close scrutiny of the environment, and utilizes the few available figures, to extrapolate and arrive at some reasonable positions.
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