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Unlike other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, Guyana does not use the “first past the post system in electing its government, relying instead on Proportional Representation. There are 65 seats in the National Assembly’ Continue reading →
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September is Indigenous Heritage Month in Guyana
By Janette Bulkan – University of British Columbia , Vancouver , Canada
ABSTRACT: In Guyana’s racialised geography, Amerindians live in scattered villages in the vast hinterland that covers 90% of the country. Amerindian iconography is appropriated in statemaking, even while Amerindians themselves are consigned to a patron–client relationship with the dominant ‘coastlander’ society. In the late 1950s, Amerindians made up only 4% of the national population but voted as a bloc in the national elections of 1957, 1961 and 1964, rallying around Amerindians, coastlanders, reserves, mining, Venezuelan land claim, Rupununi Uprising, proportional representation, government-organised non-governmental organisations,
Guyana Action Party the first Amerindian member of the legislature. Continue reading →
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Posted in Arts / Culture, Associations, Government, Guyana, History, legal, Personalities, Racial Conflict
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Also tagged Amerindians, coastlanders, government-organised non-governmental organisations, Guyana Action Party, Guyanese Online, mining, reserves, Rupununi Uprising, The Struggle for Recognition of the Indigenous Voice in Guyanese Politics - Janette Bulkan, The Struggle for Recognition of the Indigenous Voice: Amerindians in Guyanese Politics, Venezuelan land claim
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New Year Reflections and Wishes
By Eusi Kwayana
May the New Year bring new efforts to allow the Guyanese people to achieve what we deserve. When a religious personage of the Hindu faith, Swami Aksharanda, recently addressed the broad Hindu community in the context of a festival, he spoke prophetic words. He called on men to respect ALL WOMEN. If every religious faith called on its men to respect ALL WOMEN, there would be a chance of growing respect for all women. That would be the beginning of a great change.
I am personally grateful for all support in many non-political ways from ordinary Guyanese wherever I happen to be. In particular they organised to help sell my modest books. Their support was given whether they agreed with my views or not. To the extent I have the capacity to give back in return, I do freely volunteer my time and services where I am, though it is not home. Continue reading →
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Recording Guyanese political history: Memory, `archives’ and narrative overlook
By Nigel Westmaas
This essay is concerned about the politics of memory. As Guyana’s newest political (elections) season unfurls there will be numerous references to events, concepts and phrases that support attendant political narratives, that is, Guyanese political history as mainly defined by the two mass political parties that have been at the helm of the country’s political life since 1953. This contemporary concentration on a convenient nomenclature of Guyana’s political history that devolves primarily on the narrative of the two dominant political forces is hardly surprising given the grasp these organisations have held on national political consciousness up to this point.
The nomenclature of events and concepts by which the two main political parties (the PPP and PNC) define and control the narrative of “modern” Guyanese politics include: the “1950s” and “1960s”; “Disturbances”; Feed, Clothe and House the nation”; Enmore Martyrs”, “First Past the Post “ system; ”Sun Chapman” and the preceding Wismar incidents; “ Power-sharing”; “rigged elections”; “Partition”; “Proportional representation”; and “paramountcy of the party”. These favourites in the local political lexicon, as important as they are separately and collectively, sometimes uncritically legalize the philosophy and actions of one main party or the other in the representation of Guyana’s political history. This dominance leaves in its wake silences or ill attendance to other political narratives, past and present and the need for a thoughtful search for an improvement in our political narrative and culture. [more]
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Also tagged “Disturbances”;, “Partition”, ”Sun Chapman”, Cheddie Jagan, Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political history, Nigel Westmaas, nmore Martyrs”, paramountcy, Peter D’Aguiar, PPP and PNC), Wismar incidents
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Israel: Parliamentary Riffraff – Uri Avnery
Parliamentary Riffraff
WHEN I first entered the Knesset, I was shocked by the low standard of its debates. Speeches were full of clichés, platitudes and party slogans, the intellectual content was almost nil.
That was 52 years ago. Among the members were David Ben-Gurion, Menachem Begin, Levi Eshkol and several others of their kind.
Today, looking back, that Knesset looks like an Olympus, compared to the present composition of that non-august body.
AN INTELLIGENT debate in today’s Knesset would be as out of place as a Pater Noster [Our Father] in a Synagogue. Continue reading →
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