Constitutional reform and the absence of political will

Aug 29, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – Christopher Ram is quite entitled to be unimpressed by the pace of the present Constitutional Reform Commission. In a recent letter, he compared the performance of the Carl Singh-led Commission with that of the 1999 Commission and concluded that the present body, after more than two years, has barely reached the starting line.

In contrast, he observed that the 1999 Commission considered approximately 4,600 submissions and produced 171 recommendations in roughly six months. But there is an important part of that comparison which needs to be examined.