Jagdeo’s PPP: PNC sensation, WIN, raw realities Pt I

Oct 30, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – PPP General Secretary, Cde Bharrat Jagdeo, showed again that he is one step ahead of the crowd. A PPP-PNC Xmas card. A neat package of joy. Has the potential to give hope, generate inspiration. Maybe even heal some long-festering national wounds. On the surface, what Dr. Jagdeo laid on the table has much to recommend it. Condition: If it is the real deal. The question for Guyanese is three-pronged: 1) window-dressing, powerbroking, or salvaging ops? Two of the latter: one to bailout the PPP, the second to take the PNC from life support. Relative to window-dressing and powerbroking, I interpret Jagdeo using the PNC as a foil to thwart Mr. Mohamed and WIN. (And to save the PPP and PNC in the exercise).

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Speaking positively, with generous grains of hope embedded, a PPP-PNC Alliance dilutes, if only temporarily, what has been a bone-in-throat for Guyanese. The race factor. Dilutes not eradicates. For who in each side of that alliance will see, or will be whipped into a frenzy to stereotype, the other as a blood enemy? The people who make up the respective traditional bases. It will sure be an uneasy alliance, if were to gain some legs. But what choice does the PNC have? It is on the rocks. Its prospects look grim, and are grim. The chief local referee, America, is unhappy (but still accepting) of the status quo. A PPP status quo, with American interests being the main driver. Dr. Jagdeo extended his hand and, irony of ironies, it has a disguised palm branch. An olive one.