Ralph Ramkarran
Things to do on a Honeymoon
Posted on July 18, 2015 – by Ralph Ramkarran – Conversation Tree Blog
It is only fair that the traditional honeymoon period of three months of the new APNU+AFC administration be exhausted before its performance is assessed. The Government has a plan against which a judgment will be made. It is called the hundred-day programme. Little is heard of it nowadays but we, the people, who are intended to be its beneficiaries, are looking forward anxiously to its fulfillment.
The public is not familiar with the inner workings of Governments and we acknowledge that urgent events are demanding attention. Last week it was the heavy rains and flooding which required top priority – a 4 am Cabinet meeting. It is not known if all Ministers were able to make it. Continue reading →
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THE FALL OF THE PPP
Ralph Ramkarran
Posted on May 23, 2015 – by Ralph Ramkarran
The PPP’s boast has always been that it never lost elections. While it gained the highest votes in 1964, it was the PNC that was invited to form the government, which it did in coalition with the United Force. The slogan of ‘cheated not defeated’ resounded through the decades. The slogan is once again rearing its head.
The claim that it lost as a result of fraud allows it to maintain the delusion, for the benefit of its supporters, that it has never lost elections. This also serves to protect its leaders and policies from critical analysis and corrective action and revive its historic claims to victimology, now of an openly posturing ethnic political entity, to sustain the sympathy of its innocent supporters against the tribal hordes. Continue reading →
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Guyana: Capitol TV News Videos – 06 February 2015
- AFC protests for an end to use of public funds in PPP’s elections campaign
- Justice for All party confirms running with APNU for May 11 polls
- GRA drops tax evasion charge against Kaieteur News Publisher
- University of Guyana workers set for major strike Monday
- Chief pathologist robbed at gunpoint
- Father, two sons remanded for hacking Mahaica accountant to death
- Sports
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AFC protests for an end to use of public funds in PPP’s elections campaign
Posted: 06 Feb 2015 04:03 PM PST Continue reading →
Guyana: Capitol News Videos : 16 January 2015
- APNU chides Private Sector for remaining silent on gov’t transgressions
- Minister Benn says airport money “must” be spent, despite no approvals
- AFC backs foreign pressure on government
- Guyana supporting Chinese funding for bridge across Corentyne
- Differently-abled man to be honoured
- Sports
APNU chides Private Sector for remaining silent on gov’t transgressions
Posted: 16 Jan 2015 05:06 PM PST Continue reading →
APNU SHOULD THROW THE BALL BACK IN THE AFC’S COURT
December 14, 2014 | By KNews | Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom
Last Friday, I examined the counter-proposal made by the AFC to lead a pro-democracy coalition to contest next year’s general elections. I described this proposal as a case of the AFC demanding “leadership or nothing” of any coalition to oppose the PPPC.
This is not the first time that the AFC has issued such an ultimatum to APNU, the opposition partnership with the most seats in the National Assembly. At the commencement of the 10th parliament, APNU had wanted its candidate to become Speaker. The AFC however said that it wanted the position of Speaker and it was either its candidate or nothing. It made it clear that if it did not get its way it was prepared to support the PPPC’s candidate. In the end, the AFC had its way, even though they had to substitute Moses for Raphael. Continue reading →
Guyana: Capitol TV News Videos – 03 December 2014
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New General Elections loom
Posted: 03 Dec 2014 02:09 PM PST Continue reading →
Alliances and Compromises in Guyana’s Politics – By Ralph Ramkarran
Alliances and Compromises in Guyana’s Politics
Ralph Ramkarran
By Ralph Ramkarran – February 21, 2015 conversationtree.gy blog
The Cummingsburg Accord is only the latest in the history of alliances in Guyana’s post-war politics. The PPP emerged out of informal class and ethnic alliances in 1950. The PNC-UDP sought to merge African working and middle classes in the 1950s, with some resistance. The ‘moderate’ PNC came together with the ‘right wing’ UF in 1964. The opposition formed the little known VLD (Vanguard for Liberation and Democracy) in the late 1970s and the PCD in 1985, which comprised groups of differing ideological persuasions. The WPA emerged out of an alliance of several left/radical groups.
The PPP sought to engage the PNC by ‘critical support’ in 1976. In 1977 the PPP offered to sacrifice the presidency and take the second spot of prime minister in a new constitutional formula outlined in the National Patriotic Front in the interests of national unity. It was the epitome of political magnanimity in Guyana’s modern political history. The PPP saw working class unity and the strengthening of the left trend initiated by the PNC Government, as the outcome. It was rejected. Continue reading →
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