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Guyana dismisses warning of Commonwealth action for suspending Parliament
Guyana's ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) dismissed a warning from Britain that Guyana risks being referred to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group after the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country suspended Parliament in November last year. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI see we are about to get out fingers burnt yet again. Do as we say say or we will cut your foreign aid. This is politics of the past, we need to be much more pragmatic in our foreign policy in the future.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 09:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0We should cut the aid anyway, our old and vulnerable people need it and deserve it more than they do. We have millions relying on food banks in the UK, we cannot afford our foreign aid bill.
They are an independent nation, if they are saying that the rules of the commonwealth don't suit them, fine, then leave. They are independent and can do what they wish.
Guyana President Donald Ramotar
Jan 15th, 2015 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0We don’t have to listen to what Britain says in respect to such pronouncements. This is an independent country
Fine words,
thus Britain should then stop aid,
and if and when this guy gets into trouble, or a foreign power decides to pay him a visit, and he cries for help,
then politely remind him of the above,
you are independent , you told us to mind our own,
so,
soddy offy...lol
I have done a little reading on Guyana, apparently we give them aid to stop them cutting down all their trees and plundering their natural resources, its kind of a blackmail deal.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0However the country has now become whole scale reliant on foreign aid and does virtually nothing for itself, just like someone sat at home living on benefits - why work when someone else will buy your food and pay your bills.
It seems that Guyana has built an economy on this basis which has fuelled massive corruption.
I might add that this country has never said a word in favour of any support to the Falkland Islands, it seems that they have been a very poor contributor to the Commonwealth anyway. Get rid!
Any Commonwealth member country that fails to keep to the rules of membership should be suspended viz Zimbabwe, Fiji, Pakistan which, I believe, have all been suspended at one time.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1. Can you help us with who “we” is by clarifying your nationality and country of residence. Once you've done that you go on to advise which “we” is going to get their fingers burned and how.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament has made a suggestion that Guyana should be “persuaded” to return to the path of parliamentary democracy. I see no pronouncement by the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs.
Somehow some people seem to have got themselves wedded to the phrase “It's nothing to do with us”. It's an unfortunate attitude. It's true that, in the past, our interest in affairs abroad have led us into wars. Other countries are welcome to ignore what Britain says. But let's try an analogy. Many newspapers publish articles and often express views either by columnists or in editorials. Does that make them wrong? Before long nobody can say anything and nothing is anybody's business. Now when the British government started to consider intervening in the Syrian civil war, there was a massive outcry. But, now that ISIL is on the rampage, the main cry seems that Britain isn't doing enough.
If you look out of your window and see your neighbour beating 7 bells out of his wife or children, is that 'none of your business'? And when the bodies are discovered?
Yes, in some cases, British services personnel may get injured or even killed. But that's what they signed up for. When you see them on the tv, do they look terrified? If they aren't scared, why are you? I could also point out that, as a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Britain is as close as you can get to being a member of a world government. In 1939, Britain decided to shoulder the concerns of the world. We thought it right to oppose nazism and facism. If we hadn't some of today's “objectors” would be speaking German and attending the weekly “Heil Der Fuhrer” rallies.
My 4 - Zimbabwe is no longer a member of the Commonwealth - for obvious reasons.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People’s Progressive Party (PPP) as usual with these sorts of names seem not to represent the people or be very progressive if the two opposition parties having one more vote than the PPP results in the suspension of parliament.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 04 Gordo1
Jan 15th, 2015 - 07:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I believe Fiji went all “nationalistic” with their coup, and spurned the Commonwealth - now they want to be reinstated.
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Jan 15th, 2015 - 07:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh sorry, i'm from Manchester., I will try to make my comments more colloquially accurate.
“A say, it's nowt to bloody do with us cock”
Interesting to note.
Jan 15th, 2015 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Two neighbours have longstanding territorial disputes with Guyana
Venezuela has claimed all of Guyana west of the Essequibo River — 62% of Guyana's territory,
Neighbouring Suriname also claims the territory east of Guyana's New River, a largely uninhabited area of some 15,000 square kilometres (5,800 sq mi) in southeast Guyana. Guyana and Suriname also disputed their offshore maritime boundaries. This dispute flared up in June 2000
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Under intense diplomatic pressure, Venezuela agreed in 1970 to a 12-year moratorium on the dispute with the Protocol of Port-of-Spain. In 1981, Venezuela refused to renew the protocol. However, with changes to the governments of both countries relations improved, to the extent that in 1990 Venezuela sponsored Guyana's bid for OAS membership in 1990.[15][16]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Guyana
She may yet have problems she thought had gone away,
lets hope all goes well for their sake.
just a bit of info.
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Yes what's the bet Guyana comes squealing when Venezuela does an Argentina 1982 and invades.
Jan 16th, 2015 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 011 Skip
Jan 16th, 2015 - 12:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the PP Party WANTS to distance themselves from Britain - are their ideologies coinciding with those of VeneCuba and friends??
They're all friends until someone invades. Haha
Jan 16th, 2015 - 04:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0Venezuela will soon be looking for a distraction to 20 hours supermarket lines. The ex-British colony next door that 'stole' land would be a perfect scapegoat.
Anything to hold onto power for one more day.
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