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Guyanese have a keen sense when mischief is afoot stabroeknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stabroeknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The masses understood Walter Rodney's language stabroeknews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stabroeknews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Aristotle claimed that man is a social and thus political animal, and that political science is the master science largely because it determines the goals of all the other sciences. Political activity is one of the most virtuous activities, for while we all seek the good life for ourselves, political activity is directed towards achieving the good life for the entire society. Of course, in our times, to associate politicians with virtue is an oxymoron and in Guyana it has been taken to the negative extremes by the PPP. A few days ago, Stabroek News carried a story ‘Contracts signed for Plaisance works’ (SN:17/05/2023) containing a photograph of some of the purported contractors who apparently had just won small contracts from the government. On a cursory investigation, about 90% of those individuals had been wearing the PPP signature red shirts during a visit by President Irfaan Ali to the area about a week ago, apparently campaigning for the upcoming local government elections. ....
When the news broke that the 1997 elections had been vitiated there was an eruption of excitement among some PNCR supporters working in a particular private sector entity. They were euphoric until the grounds for the vitiation were explained to them. ....
From the way the PPP’s General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo, prattled away at yesterday’s press conference, any observer uninitiated in Guyana’s political history would be tempted to believe that Jagdeo and his party, the PPP/C, were champions of local democracy. ....