Tag: Ravi Dev

ROAR of Ravi Dev Back in 2009, I engaged several interlocutors such as Lincoln Lewis, Eric Philips and Freddy Kissoon et al, who, despairing of removing the PPP, which they ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Back in March, when Granger called for a recount after the Mingo debacle - which he could not deny because the entire western block had witnessed ...

Invariably, when the internecine warfare that characterises our politics in the modern era is bemoaned, it is pointed out that our ethnically divided electorate is replicated in neighbouring T&T, yet ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Our modern political history is characterised by bouts of intense conflict between the two major ethnic groups in Guyana – Indian and African Guyanese - especially ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Returning from a CARICOM mission of Prime Ministers, to broker an end to our elections impasse, T&T PM Keith Rowley candidly predicted that things “will not ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Last week I again participated in discussions with David Hinds on the background to the elections imbroglio, hoping to formulate a win-win exit strategy. The premise ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev The following is excerpted from a piece written after the PPP won the 1992 elections to describe some of the challenges they would face in governance. ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev After I had quit my job in NYC in 1988 and returned to Guyana as a member of a small think tank called the “Jaguar Committee ...

The ROAR of Ravi Dev (The following opening paragraphs were originally published in 2006. The more things change…) “Guyana is once more demonstrating the basic truth of the insight that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev In our 1990, paper, “For a New Political Culture”, we introduced the notion of the “Ethnic Security Dilemmas” (ECD’s) as structuring the political behaviour of Guyana’s ...