{"id":114018,"date":"2020-07-24T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=114018"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T11:55:51","slug":"commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: A Tale Of Two Neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/p>

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(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The view expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Recent electoral events in Guyana and Suriname, which border each other on the north-eastern coast of the South American continent, display a remarkably different approach to democracy that could be the determining factor in catapulting Suriname\u2019s development and prosperity well ahead of Guyana\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The two countries have many similarities and some differences.<\/p>

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One of the principal differences is that Suriname endured coup d’\u00e9tats by the military, whereas Guyana has not, although the latter is notorious for disputed elections with losing parties accusing the governing party of rigging the elections.\u00a0\u00a0There is a twist in the latest elections, held in Guyana on March 2nd<\/sup>\u00a02020.\u00a0\u00a0After all parties and observers declared the elections to be free and fair, the governing party, APNU-AFC, claimed that the opposition party, the PPP\/C had somehow fixed the elections.<\/p>

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The coup d’\u00e9tats in Surname were both led by Desir\u00e9 Delano “D\u00e9si” Bouterse, who became the\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0leader of the country from 1980 to 1987, and then again from December 1990 to May 1991.<\/p>\n

Bouterse, eventually won two terms in office by way of the ballot box from 2010 to 2015 and 2015 until May 25, 2020 when his National Democratic Party lost elections.<\/p>

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As elections in these two neighbouring states were approaching at the beginning of 2020, if any public polling were taken on which government would have refused to leave office, even if it had clearly lost, it would have undoubtedly reflected Bouterse\u2019s.\u00a0\u00a0After all, a man who had twice seized power at the point of a gun was a superior candidate for discarding the will of the electorate, democratically exhibited in elections.<\/p>\n

Not so.\u00a0\u00a0In the end, the Suriname elections result was declared on June 4, and Bouterse conceded to the Opposition parties, led by Chandrikapersad \u2018Chan\u2019\u00a0Santokh\u00a0of the United Reform Party.\u00a0\u00a0Bouterse himself placed the Presidential sash of office on Santokh at a ceremony on July 16.<\/p>

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In the meantime, the declaration of the result of the Guyana elections has been prolonged for over four months.\u00a0\u00a0A constant cycle of appeals to the Courts by supporters of the APNU-AFC now halt a result being declared.\u00a0\u00a0Even after the highest Appellate Court, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), pronounced on the matter, appeals have been made to lower courts to overturn the CCJ\u2019s judgement \u2013 an act unprecedented in the history of global judicial systems.<\/p>

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A striking similarity about Guyana and Suriname is that they have both become beneficiaries of major finds of oil and gas that promise to place them amongst the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere.\u00a0\u00a0The revenues from oil and gas sales would transform them from backwater nations to countries, whose economic power would make them significant influencers in the Caribbean and the hemisphere.<\/p>\n

But, there is a corollary to that observation.\u00a0\u00a0It is that Suriname and Guyana each has to be an acceptable state in the world community, with governments that demonstrably adhere to democracy and the rule of law.\u00a0\u00a0The days of rogue governments operating with impunity in the international community are over.<\/p>\n

There are several mechanisms by which Suriname and Guyana are tested.\u00a0\u00a0These include the CARICOM Charter of Civil Rights, the Inter-American Democratic Charter in the Western Hemisphere and the UN-adopted International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.<\/p>\n

Suriname has now demonstrated its readiness to honour its commitments under these binding agreements, giving its own people, the international community and investors in its oil and gas industry the confidence that, in moving forward, democracy and the rule of law will be respected.<\/p>\n

Suriname has every prospect now of establishing itself as a leader-nation in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), utilising its new oil and gas wealth to help finance regional integration in crucial areas such as air and sea transportation; food security; providing concessional financing for development projects through the Caribbean Development Bank; and acting as a strong interlocutor for CARICOM in international affairs.<\/p>\n

Guyana, on the other hand, once a strong leader and an important voice in regional and global affairs, risks being ostracised in the regional, hemispheric, and international communities.<\/p>\n

No number of braggadocious political claims about Guyana\u2019s \u2018sovereignty\u2019, and why it doesn\u2019t need the United States, CARICOM, the Organization of American States, the European Union or any other country or international institution, changes the reality that Guyana does need a constructive and respected relationship with all of them.<\/p>\n

For sure, there is a great deal of reform that is urgently required within Guyana to establish truly independent and sustainable institutions which reflect racial inclusion and balance in their composition, especially in their decision-making boards.\u00a0\u00a0Racial and religious understanding and appreciation must become integral to the education curriculum. Fear that the proceeds of revenues from oil and gas will be sequestered into the pockets of a few, or for the benefit of one racial group over another, has to be addressed by the adoption of laws governing transparency and wealth distribution and by severe penalties for their violation.\u00a0\u00a0The electoral system also requires root and branch transformation, including by ensuring that no politician serves on the Elections Commission or appoints anyone to it \u2013 that task should be passed to representative bodies of civil society and enshrined in law.<\/p>\n

But, more than anything else, those who seek political office should understand that they are elected to serve the nation, and not to become the nation\u2019s overlords.\u00a0\u00a0And, when the majority of the electorate vote to relieve them of office, they should leave, recognising that political office is not their right to hold; it is the people\u2019s right to give and to take away.<\/p>\n

Bouterse of Suriname showed, in the end, that he understood well that Suriname\u2019s interest in the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century would have been gravely blighted had he chosen to remain despite the will of the people.<\/p>\n

In this tale of two countries, adherence to democracy and the rule of law has set the Surinamese people on the path to progress, while the Guyanese people are being hobbled from striding forward on that rewarding road.<\/p>\n

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By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The view expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 Recent electoral events in Guyana and Suriname, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: A Tale Of Two Neighbours - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COMMENTARY: A Tale Of Two Neighbours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS.\u00a0\u00a0He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The view expressed are entirely his own)\u00a0 Recent electoral events in Guyana and Suriname, […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-24T11:55:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"340\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"COMMENTARY: A Tale Of Two Neighbours\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-24T11:55:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-07-24T11:55:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\"},\"wordCount\":1058,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:600\/h:340\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SirRon.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-a-tale-of-two-neighbours\/\",\"name\":\"COMMENTARY: A Tale Of Two Neighbours - 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