we already had a young idiot. That didn't work out so well. And we're still paying for that error.

I don't think anyone ought to be chosen on account of age for anything. I know a lot of stupid young people and a lot of stupid old people (like you).

We just need someone of marginal intellectual ability, with good judgment, and some people skills.

The British used to send us the duncest white they could find as Governor. Surely, we could find some coolie to negro to equal a Battenburgh or a Savage or even a Rose.

Then I think Guyana needs Uncle Nehru.

I said dunce by white standards not coolie/negro dunce

Suh Coolie cant Rule Guyana. Are you related to Caribj???

We just need someone of marginal intellectual ability, with good judgment, and some people skills.

Dat is Uncle Nehru Bhai.

ah doan know if you have judgment and people skills bai

Gy has a leadership vacuum, no current political leader in Gy has the integrity to lead the country or anyone. What Gy needs is a Walter Rodney type, surly there must be one somewhere.  

Rodney was an avowed Marxist so he would be a misfit for today. He was of another era like many of the cold war detritus in the PPP. We need better. I dont see it. I just hope for it.

not sure about his political leanings but from everything I hear he appealed to and was accepted by the masses in Gy and this was across all races. 

However, having said that, if someone was Marxist/Socialist/Capitalist but the majority of the country democratically elected him/her to be their leader, then I believe that is their right. 

Rodney was never a Marxist.

He believed in Pan African ideology.

Rodney's popularity was due to his bravery in publicly humiliating LFSB.  He coined the title King Kong.  The WPA was as far apart from the PPP as it was from the PNC. 

We need to grow up as a society and stop looking for Messiahs and Saviours. That hasn't worked out well for us in the past. The Coolie Messiah and the Negro Messiah model of government failed.

Why don't we try what worked in Guyana until 1964? Mediocre honest men and women under a somewhat decent Constitution with the rule of law actually enforced?

Sorry sir,

That don't happen in third world countries.

You see, when millionaires run for prez, and mayors, it's not for monetary gain....its for other perks.

So far Peter  Daguiar was the only politician that had money and motivated by a fear of communism.

Any average income Guyanese that gets into power...and see dollar signs, will change into a corrupt politician.

if you ever have the good fortune to drive a Ferrari, no way you going back to a little Honda. Law of nature and economics.

Rodney was a Marxist. His entire historical methodology was Marxist. I've read some of his works including "History of Guyanese Working People" and his analyses are Marxist and he never allowed his concerns for people of African origin to ever demand fairness for others. Actually he always took pain to put himself in the shoes of others, surprisingly in even the shoes of some of the planters. The latter is often forgotten by most if not all.

Pan African is predominantly anti colonialist philosophy. If Che Guevara and Castro are Pan African heroes, it's merely part of the game. It is a Socialist philosophy after all.

I listened to him three times in person ( two times more than I have listened to obamba) and he was a marxist.

I see de man pushin hard hard for that position, hehehehe. Shaitaan, go for it nuh, you got our backing, even Uncle Nehuski's.

I don't know why anti-colonialism is treated as some kind of Gospel by everyone. We inherited many good things from our colonial heritage.

This kind of West Indian and Third World tradition of lefty mutual masturbation where we all condemn colonialism is completely blind to many the many things we have to appreciate and indeed be grateful for to our British heritage.

The funny thing is they never even fought for independence. The British found Guyana of little economic value. They held on for a few more years because they were hoping to leverage against the communist tide sweeping British Guiana. Sir Eric Williams noted in 1945 that British Guiana was of no economic value to Britain. It is just a myth by the independence generation that they fought for some grand independence.

Granger soon will be 70 years old.

Nagamootoo soon will be 65 years old.

Both of these men cannot influence the citizens of Guyana.

Granger has the Afro support down pat.

Nagamootoo is hoping to swing the Indo- that is not a sure thing for him to do.

Both of these fellas have had their days. 

This alliance thing is not going to fly in a majority government for them. As I said in a previous post, they need to find a Presidential Candidate that is unknown-but articulate. And knows the entire country's history. That individual could generate new interests in the electorate.

Moses and Granger have said enough for years and din make one bit of difference in the polarization.

Personally, I doan think those gentlemen want change-they want only to govern.

In Canada, there was a guy named Joey Smallwood-he said, if intelligent leaders want a change of direction in a country. Those wise, must be willing to read an awful lot. Just to get the fell of citizens.

Guyanese politicians full of themselves. Perhaps, dey doan even know who GHK Lall is. 

For the PPP. The struggle was to have GIWU recognized. Have the MPCA nullified. The campaign was more about the sugar industry paying slave labour wages. For the Jagans, it was more of struggle against the American preventing them for taking Guyana into the Soviet sphere.

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