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Caribbean & Central America - June 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)

GUYANA: No reconciliation in Guyana, but agreement on Venezuela

Incoming governments love to promise a new beginning with harmony and reconciliation. On winning power for the first time in 1979, even the unapologetically divisive British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously quoted St. Francis of Assisi: “Where there is discord, may we bring harmony”. In his 29 May inauguration speech, Guyana’s incoming President David Granger followed the long tradition by promising “to continue the task of working to achieve national unity” and to “pursue relentlessly the goal of inclusionary democracy”; and the choice of the non-partisan former diplomat Dr Barton Scotland as Speaker of the National Assembly is an unexpectedly conciliatory gesture. But having lost power for the first time in 23 years, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is in no mood to accept olive branches from Granger, sincere or otherwise.

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