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Bottled water plan is admission of failure by gov’t 

Dear Editor, The Government of Guyana is known to be the first to come up with skullduggeries to camouflage its incompetence and wrongheadedness; but this unprecedented maneuver to build and operate its own bottled water plant has to take the cake as the big stunt to distract from its gross incompetence, failure, and dereliction of duty of a normal Government to perform its paramount function of delivering a clean municipal water supply system to its citizens.

Political atmosphere 

The ruling party does not seem to have noticed that the political atmosphere has changed. Perhaps it began with last year’s election which dealt the old two-party format a significant blow.

Insights from the experiences of India and Guyana since independence

By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan Previously Fellow of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. India, a sprawling sub-continent of numerous ethnicities and groups, with rich varieties of language and culture, achieved its independence ‘at the stroke of the midnight hour’ on 15 August, 1947 after a decades-long struggle for its freedom from British rule led by Mahatma Gandhi.

Insights from the experiences of India and Guyana since independence