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Dr Win­ford James

I have ar­gued in my last two columns that all our prime min­is­ters, in­clud­ing Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Dr Keih Row­ley, were grant­ed los­ing eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal hands, and that Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been grant­ed the same kinds of hand in the par­lia­men­tary elec­tions of April 28.

I have posit­ed, fol­low­ing Lloyd Best (who I re­gard as be­ing still rel­e­vant as a schol­ar of eco­nom­ics), that the coun­try is still run­ning an al­most pure plan­ta­tion econ­o­my that fea­tures ex­ces­sive de­pen­dence on a high­ly cap­i­talised oil and gas in­dus­try op­er­at­ed by in­ter­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions.