indian people should start cursing the day some of the ppp ministers forefathers come to guyana they bring a curse to haunt this generation  

The PPP is putting Indian first and Guyana 2nd. I have been saying for a while now that only a coup and subsequent executions of the PPP criminals would solve the problem. Granger should intervene. It was good enough for Fuji all those years ago when the Indos let power get to their head.

I used to be appalled at the Fiji situation but I think I get it. They ethnic Fijians were smart. They kept their Indos in line. We obviously know from experience that the descendants of Indian indentured servants are not ready for holding the reins of government.

When coolie people have figured out that their fellow coolies in government are screwing them over, they come up with this lame fatalism....bai ah whah yuh guh duh?

i always say guyana need a coup,but granger is too weak for this kind of action 

Gen. Granger is one of the nicest most reasonable men you'll ever meet...which means he's terribly unsuited to dealing with the PPP.

The PPP only understands a good cuff in the face.

exactly the ppp only understand violence i say free up the position to somebody who can kill them 

Remember how Hoyte didn't get anywhere for all the years he was a peaceful good boy? and suddenly when he brought in some "fiah", all of a sudden constitutions needed to be reformed and elections held etc.

bai...wha yuh gun doo

nobody will miss a couple of dead ppp thief 

how tings man? was i missed?

Well it appears that, unlike their Bajan brothers and sisters, Afro Guyanese were no more ready.  That Bajan blood washed out fast!

Well he did promise it of the PPP continued to portray him as a black Hitler.

That is exactly why Granger warned the PPP that he couldn't protect them if his supporters felt insulted. 

The PPP nightmare will be all those ex GDF men surrounding Granger talking to their current GDF buddies and rescuing Guyana as Jerry Rawlings rescued Ghana, and that nation hasn't looked back since!

A coup followed by a newly imposed constitution and fresh elections would work. Wonder why the PNC never tried it.

Sadly it will be a coup followed by rampant corruption.

These guys now know that they can steal billions, and not just enough to buy a gold chain for their wife and also their baby mothers, but also have been starving now for 22 years, and don't know how long the USA will permit them to stay in power without a free and fair election.

I used to think only Indos use to follow Jagan blindly. My grandfather, who was a supervisor of some sort at the state mining company (DEMBA I think) in Linden told once me that Burnham would get his friends to give him their money personally at a public meeting and then they would have to bum smokes off him afterwards because they would be broke.

They too thought that Burnham was their "daddy", but the aftermath and the suffering of the 80s made them change their minds.  This is why Hoyte, Corbin, and now Granger have hell to keep their followers in line.

I'm no expert but I think a principal cause of many of the ills which plague the Afro Guyanese population today is that their interests were married to the State under the PNC and now that the Indos own the State it has led to their demise. The Indos never really relied on state support for their continued economic and social existence so they weathered PNC rule better.

Ironically, the PNC set up blacks for failure.

there is no coup in Guyana's future . . . the army is hollowed out with no transport capability and mediocre leadership . . . by design

Gerry Gouveia's runs the alternative private air arm, and the GDF rents trucks from PPP supporters more often than not when they need to mobilize

i am not even going to bother mentioning the private armies financed (essentially) by taxpayer funds and drug lord money

it serves the PPP purpose to scare (especially) Indo-Guyanese with a fake image of Burnham's military, circa 1978

Look PPP is hiding the population breakdown. That likely means their East Indian base is down to about 38 to 40%. So the race-based campaign really don't matter. As a matter of fact, PPP risks turning off the mixed voters, a percentage of which votes PPP.

Well designed by the master planner that chap

was well trained by the Russians.

on the money

Imagine all those thousands and thousands of PPP supporters scared shitless of these aging Colonels of the GDF that finally got promoted today

I can just see tens and tens of GDF Colonels calling upon tens and tens of AWOL soldiers to oppress Indos

control your hard-on and tell us if what i say is true or not

Bhai the master planner is not you,is the

Russian trained economist.

I have always said that Burnham was the biggest disaster for blacks, and made them vulnerable to the very significant racism that they face today from BOTH the Indian dominated gov't, and the Indian dominated private sector.

Guyanese blacks after slavery ended were mainly small traders and farmers, something that folks today wouldn't believe.  The colonial elites were terrified that an independent black business class would arise, as their greater numbers threatened the continued dominance of the colony by the white planter elites.  So they did their best to ensure that the blacks failed as peasant farmers and as small traders.

As a result an emerging black middle class saw upward mobility through education and through the civil service, and the black middle class began to become dependent on the state.  This was the root of their insecurity when Indians also began to aspire to jobs in the civil service in the late 50s.  Which is why they saw the PPP as a threat.  And this is why control of the state become central to the survival of the middle class.  They had lost the confidence to think that they could compete as business owners, and saw involvement in farming as a fast root to poverty, with the decline of the black villages and their ongoing drainage problems.  And they faced wide spread discrimination in the corporate sector as only light skinned people could work at places like Fogarty's and Bookers above menial levels.  So the civil service was it.

If Burnham cared about Afro Guyanese empowerment he would have unashamedly promoted the development of a black business class, instead of wasting time with his cooperative socialism.  Guyanese are too individualistic to think that top down imposed coops could work.   But Burnham wanted a dependent black population as much as the colonial elites wanted, so fostered corrupt cronyism and dependency.

1992 comes, and blacks lose access to the state, and in 2015, almost 50 years after independence, still face racism in the corporate sector, even as much as this has become a thing of the past even in places like Barbados and Jamaica, which used to be very color struck societies.

It is never in the interest of any society to have large numbers of people who feel totally alienated.  Just as it makes sense to investigate the reasons why Indians aren't equally represented in the disciplined forces, some also claim the judiciary, it is also dangerous when an entire group feels that there are barriers preventing their upward mobility.

This is quite true.  When the PPP cites the armed forces as a hostile piwer base there are scaring Indians.  Blacks are totally demoralized and alienated because they don't see that they have ANY power base.  They are victimized in all aspects of life, and often sold out by black soup lickers and milk drinkers.  Some might actually land a few contracts or other favors as a result.

Hence many have opted out of the process and do not plan to vote.  When stormborn engages in his fantasies he fails to understand this.

Not going to happen, but it doesn't hurt to engage PPP paranoia to pretend that it will.

Caribny, i think it is a mistake to insist that Burnham did not want black empowerment and, like the colonial elite before him, crafted policies to make them economically dependent

socialism created dependency on the state for all, same as in Russsia, the Eastern bloc, Cuba, etc.

Dr. Jagan supported the overarching communist economic model, and a PPP government, given opportunity then, would have produced similar 'dependencies' on the state

nationalizing Guysuco and Demba, etc., was actually seen by the Marxist modelers in both the PPP and PNC as empowering the Indian and African working classes

they both could have taken useful lessons fron Lee Kuan Yew and what was happening in Singapore

Explain how Afro Guyanese were empowered by Burnham.  Note that their plight is blatantly obvious to every foreigner visiting Guyana, as it is extremely obvious that Afro Guyanese are treated as third class citizens, and pretty much excluded.

How did Burnham prepare blacks for the day when the PNC would lose, as the demographic composition of Guyana would have suggested was inevitable, given that until recently Indians were more than 50% of the voting age population?

Name one communist country which has been successful.  If Burnham wanted blacks to be successful he would have ensured that a black small and mid sized business class would have grown.  That didn't happen so blacks have no political power, and dependent on those who despise them for employment.

Even you describe how pitiful the GDF is, dependent on Indians for survival?  So even the only arena where there is significant black leadership they are weak and vulnerable.

BTW Cuban blacks are the other pitiful ones who have been screwed over and are being pushed out as that island's economy changes and the state owned sector is replaced by the [private sector.

dude, are you a robot whose programmer died?

stop this looney tilting at familiar targets that exsist only in your head, and actually read what i posted

jeez!

Carib does that all the time. I man figured long time ago that he is suffering from shit on the brain syndrome.

I think is very disingenuous of Carib to keep doing this and is indicative of his racist state of mind where he is looking for sound bites as opposed to substance.

yep.

Forever dem stupidass PPP pricks always putting kulie ppl in harms way.

Strategy bai, strategy!

Indos looking at Departure Day not Arrival Day!

Under the PPP, getting US visas is now the easiest in the history of Guyana.

Even Chinese and Indian nationals rushing to Guyana!