<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036</id><updated>2012-01-20T05:10:57.106-05:00</updated><title type='text'>AFC weB LOG</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-8407208381453450018</id><published>2008-05-29T13:44:00.006-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T14:16:41.407-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PETITION FROM CITIZENS OF GUYANA TO CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT INVITING CONSIDERATION ON ISSUES AFFECTING GUYANA</title><summary type='text'>THIS HUMBLE PETITION of the undersigned citizens of Guyana, inviting CARICOM to make recommendations to the President and Government of Guyana to meaningfully address issues affecting the well-being of the citizens of Guyana, and, generally, calling on the leaders of our sister Caribbean countries to uphold our shared ideals of freedom, peace and justice by furthering the legitimate aspirations </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/8407208381453450018/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=8407208381453450018' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/8407208381453450018'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/8407208381453450018'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/05/petition-from-citizens-of-guyana-to.html' title='PETITION FROM CITIZENS OF GUYANA TO CARICOM HEADS OF GOVERNMENT INVITING CONSIDERATION ON ISSUES AFFECTING GUYANA'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-8205698093432721721</id><published>2008-05-18T16:18:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-18T16:20:13.866-04:00</updated><title type='text'>What about a polygraph test, Mr. President? by Khemraj Ramjattan</title><summary type='text'>The recent surge of demonstrations sponsored by the PNC, especially coming so soon after being paid $100 million, did not surprise me. And surely it did not surprise the President and the PPP.Being once an insider in Jagdeo’s PPP, and being discerning enough to comprehend the sometimes muddled machinations from its calculating cabal, has taught me that the PPP’s giving is always an investment, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/8205698093432721721/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=8205698093432721721' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/8205698093432721721'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/8205698093432721721'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/05/afc-column-voices-of-its-principleswhat.html' title='What about a polygraph test, Mr. President? by Khemraj Ramjattan'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-9113644352506791109</id><published>2008-04-27T00:05:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-27T00:07:27.212-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Local Democratic System fails the people of Guyana. by Michael Carrington</title><summary type='text'>In Guyana, power greedy politicians have ensured the continued failure of the state to implement an inclusionary democracy, as is stated and required in Article 13 of our constitution. This failure is visible every day in the operation of our local neighbourhood democratic organ across Guyana which cannot mange themselves properly. The government has refused to truly implement local democracy, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/9113644352506791109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=9113644352506791109' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/9113644352506791109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/9113644352506791109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/our-local-democratic-system-fails.html' title='Our Local Democratic System fails the people of Guyana. by Michael Carrington'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-9066809363473228644</id><published>2008-04-19T21:28:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-19T21:29:01.198-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sharma now….who next ?</title><summary type='text'>Guyana once again bleeds. This time not from marauding gunmen wantonly shooting at innocent civilians, but from an assault on the tenets of natural justice by the  President of Guyana, Bharrat  Jagdeo.  His unilateral decision to sit in judgment in a matter for which he was the subject of the complaint demonstrates a blatant disregard for fairness and equal treatment before the law. The Alliance </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/9066809363473228644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=9066809363473228644' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/9066809363473228644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/9066809363473228644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/sharma-nowwho-next.html' title='Sharma now….who next ?'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-7659777164662017107</id><published>2008-04-13T09:46:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-13T09:47:30.542-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT UPSET WITH VENEZUELA?  by  Raphael Trotman</title><summary type='text'>Of all the things that the Government of Guyana could be expressing outrage at, they have decided to register a protest over Venezuela’s decision to donate food and supplies to the people of Buxton. Once again these goodly people of Buxton are caught up in a political game which they did not invite on themselves. Once before they were caught in a tense diplomatic incident which almost led to the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/7659777164662017107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=7659777164662017107' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/7659777164662017107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/7659777164662017107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-is-government-upset-with-venezuela.html' title='WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT UPSET WITH VENEZUELA?  by  Raphael Trotman'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-6939652633247952241</id><published>2008-04-06T03:03:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-04-06T03:10:28.476-04:00</updated><title type='text'>"The National Assembly of the Parliament of Guyana, like the country itself is at the cross roads." by Sheila Holder, MP</title><summary type='text'>The National Assembly of the Parliament of Guyana, like the country itself is at the cross roads. While at one level genuine efforts are being made to attain for this institution the premiere place the Constitution assigns it, insecure forces within the PPP/C are at work retarding those efforts.Regrettably, in the eyes of citizens this situation has courted not only the belief that the National </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/6939652633247952241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=6939652633247952241' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/6939652633247952241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/6939652633247952241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/04/national-assembly-of-parliament-of.html' title='&quot;The National Assembly of the Parliament of Guyana, like the country itself is at the cross roads.&quot; by Sheila Holder, MP'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-366452509760449585</id><published>2008-03-07T23:15:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T23:40:57.406-05:00</updated><title type='text'>BUDGET PRESENTATION 2008 - Raphael Trotman</title><summary type='text'>Today I am at pains to debate this budget Mr. Speaker but out of a duty which falls on me as leader of the AFC I rise to make my contribution. I have searched through the pages of the document entitled “Staying the Course: Advancing the Transformation Agenda” and have found little upon which to mount the type of debate that we have unfortunately grown accustomed to. If truth be told Mr. Speaker, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/366452509760449585/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=366452509760449585' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/366452509760449585'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/366452509760449585'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/03/budget-presentation-2008-raphael.html' title='BUDGET PRESENTATION 2008 - Raphael Trotman'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-3336284530494561085</id><published>2008-02-02T08:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-02-02T08:54:19.061-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Lusingan massacre</title><summary type='text'>This is the most recent event in Guyana that has galvanized all of us; both at home and overseas. Instead of sending around hundreds of emails, let's post our thoughts and questions here and get the whole story, when it is convenient for each of us. Also, this way, no one is left out of the loop. txOmaHere is my last email, asking for us to go forward together..All,  There are some realities that</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/3336284530494561085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=3336284530494561085' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/3336284530494561085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/3336284530494561085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2008/02/lusingan-massacre.html' title='Lusingan massacre'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36273036.post-5272704081475214728</id><published>2007-09-04T10:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T03:17:23.676-04:00</updated><title type='text'>WHITHER POLITICAL COOPERATION? By Raphael Trotman</title><summary type='text'>On September, 2006, His Excellency the President addressed the opening session of the ninth Parliament of Guyana and made what many considered a brilliant speech to the newly elected members.Many promises were contained in the speech and the AFC took the position during the debate on a Motion on its adoption that time will be the judge of whether the President's vision and promises were worthy of</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/feeds/5272704081475214728/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=36273036&amp;postID=5272704081475214728' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/5272704081475214728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/36273036/posts/default/5272704081475214728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://allianceforchange.blogspot.com/2007/09/2007-9-2-whither-political-cooperation.html' title='WHITHER POLITICAL COOPERATION? By Raphael Trotman'/><author><name>Alliance For Change Blog</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/18264915007185499228</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='15' src='http://www.afcguyana.com/Key.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
