The talk about Guyana today is about the substantive Commissioner of Police possibly being charged for rape. Last weekend, when the media carried the story that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) recommended that the Commissioner be charged with rape, immediately tongues began to wag. It seems as if there is never a dull moment in this relatively small society where public officials are the subject of great scandals.

It appears that no aspect of Guyanese life is free from politics. Whether it is a particular promoter hosting a super concert or the reviewing of lecturers’ contracts at the University of Guyana, one can rest assured that politics will prevail. Sadly today, we see politics brazenly breaking and entering the world of Guyanese sport; particularly cricket.

In Guyana it often seems as if the more things seem to change the more they remain the same. In a time gone by when Guyana was once governed by the PNC, the PPP then in opposition, vigorously protested that which it believed were the excesses of the PNC government. Many of the harsh protests were felt in the sugar industry, where strikes were used as a crippling political weapon, while arson in the cane fields was reserved for the more dastardly acts of sabotage. Sadly the myopic vision of the PPP could not see that it would live to inherit an industry it systematically wounded.