Pace and spin

Sep 21, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) There are governments that take a year to get started, governments that take a year to find their feet, and then there is the second Irfaan Ali administration, which seems to have been in office for approximately three years, seven months and a long weekend, even though it has been only one year.

At this rate, by the time the Government reaches the end of its term, the citizens may be entitled to claim retirement benefits for having lived through it. The first year has certainly been hectic. There is no denying that a great deal has happened and, more importantly, that a great deal is still happening. Guyana has become a country where you can leave home and when you are returning home in the afternoon wonder whether you are in the same country. By the time the day is over a new road, bridge, school, hospital or building has been erected. That is how fast things are moving.