The CRC

Aug 27, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – Guyana cannot afford to treat constitutional reform as another endless national talking shop. The Constitution is the foundation on which the country’s democratic institutions stand and any effort to strengthen it cannot be allowed to collapse under the weight of bureaucracy, political convenience and institutional inertia.

Yet that is precisely where the country appears to be heading. More than two years after the Carl Singh-led Constitution Reform Commission was sworn in, Guyanese are now being invited to submit written proposals by 31st December. Attorney-at-law and Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram has rightly questioned how a process that was supposed to advance constitutional reform could take nearly four years from the passage of the legislation and more than two years after the Commission was sworn in—to reach what amounts to the beginning of public consultation.