Guyana the unbelievable, the inexplicable

Oct 29, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana is one hell of a country. This country under the PPP Govt must qualify to be in an extremely ugly category of hell. I watch as a citizen is savaged repeatedly, and silence is the only sound that splits the air. Silence, the bleats of fear. Or cheap ambition. Alongside that, there’s distance. It’s somebody else’s business; they can fight. The PPP Govt knows where it has Guyanese. And because of that, its leaders know that it can kick them around, violate any standards to bring them down, and few objections would be forthcoming.

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The holder of a constitutional office is hounded, trailed, watched, cornered and trapped, branded and battered, squeezed and tumbled, and rare are any words of protest heard from Guyanese. Many of those who long shared lofty phrases and long held larger-than-life positions on the sacredness of the Guyana Constitution, have all turned turtle or turned yellow. The former is a defensive stance (making oneself small and harmless); the latter is the cowardly color of those who have compromised themselves in some way. Or harbour high expectations for considerations from on high. The moment that there is any kind of dependency on the PPP Govt, the dependent is as good as dead. Dead to principles. Dead to integrity. Dead to personal honor. What applies to individuals, also applies to groups. The tools and resources, the assets and institutions, of a country assembled, then unleashed in waves of attacks on those deemed parasites, undesirables, and misfits. Maybe not fit to live.