The constitutional reform process must be accelerated

Feb 13, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I endorse the call by the Guyana Human Rights Commission for the Government to take immediate action to move the constitutional reform process forward which incidentally was one of its election manifesto promises to the nation. Apart from a committee which was set up over a year ago and a preliminary report submitted by that body, the contents of which were never made public, there has been no further development on this fundamental issue.
A crisis of confidence is slowly emerging among a significant body of the Guyanese population due to a mismatch between what the APNU-AFC administration had promised during the elections campaign and its actual performance on the job. High on the list of broken promises is the failure to create an environment of national reconciliation and trust with the aim of establishing the framework for shared and inclusive governance. In actual fact, the lack of trust and consensus has never been higher between the administration and the political opposition.
Guyanese are crying out for a new kind of politics, one in which there is no ‘winner takes all’ and where every Guyanese feels that they have an equal stake in the national development effort.
There is a fair amount of political alienation as a consequence of the current configuration of our body politic which can only be remedied by constitutional reforms aimed at deepening our democracy and creating a climate of trust and confidence between the government and representative bodies including the political opposition.
Guyanese are sick and tired of the current mode of adversarial politics and are becoming impatient over the inaction of those in authority to come up with a new governance paradigm which will put the interest of the nation and its people ahead of narrow sectarian and partisan considerations.
Hydar Ally,
PPP Central Committee member

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