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Nov 11, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds Tomorrow Guyanese participate in their second local government election in two years—the first time in fifty years that there would be consecutive elections of this type. The PNC government of that time discontinued them in 1970 and the PPP government…
Continue readingNov 04, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds Former Speaker of the National Assembly, Ralph Ramkarran and Political Scientist, Dr. Henry Jeffrey, have often used their weekly newspaper columns to remind Guyana about the urgent need for constitutional reform as a prerequisite for a solution to our ongoing…
Continue readingOct 28, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds As a student of the mother music of the Anglophone Caribbean, the calypso, I weep for our region whenever one of the giants of the art-form passes on. Yes, I am saddened when the artist is called to the great…
Continue readingOct 21, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds Guyana is governed by a coalition of six parties—five of them under the umbrella of APNU. Three of the parties have little or no name recognition. While the other three are known nationally, only one of them, the PNC, has…
Continue readingOct 14, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds My attention was drawn to an observation by President Granger in his recent interview in the Guyana Review. When asked about managing the coalition, the President said that the coalition parties have a shared vision and that they work well…
Continue readingBy Dr. David Hinds It boggles the mind that a group of people who turned their faces against the excesses of the Jagdeo regime have now become the purveyors of Jagdeoism. In many ways this government is worst than the Burnham and Jagdeo regimes—not because they have done worse, but…
Continue readingBy Dr. David Hinds Let’s take the government’s attitude to the teachers’ wage issue, for example. I know the Junior Minister of Labour very well; I consider him both a colleague and friend. I can say with much certainty that his actions and utterances in relation to the teachers’ issue…
Continue readingOct 07, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds I generally start my examination of social and political phenomena with a bias towards the socio-political environment and realities which produce the outcomes. In other words, I focus less on individuals as individuals and more on them as products of…
Continue readingSep 30, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds This past week, the country had to endure the back and forth among the parties contesting the upcoming local government election over the validity of their respective candidates’ list. The exchange between the PPP and the AFC was especially sharp….
Continue readingSep 23, 2018 Features / Columnists, Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds As Guyana prepares for the coming Oil and Gas dispensation, there is not unexpectedly, a lot of debate over what direction the government should take. We have heard from experts, at least one political party, the private sector organizations, political…
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