Gya: WANTED: Foreign intervention in Guyana

Guyana is caught in a structural deadlock that can only be resolved through some form of foreign intervention, warns Dr Clive Thomas.

At Friday's closing session of the "International Conference on Governance, Conflict Analysis and Conflict Resolution," he observed that Guyana was in the midst of a serious national crisis which required a strategic vision.

Guyana needs intervention at the macro/national, intermediate/meso and the micro/local levels, Thomas said.

He listed, "the superficiality of national unity, the dynamics of racial arithmetic and insecurity and the unrelenting rise of both benign and militant extremism."

Guyana's predicament, he said, was compounded by the depth, scale, complexity and sheer persistence of economic misery and the growth of the narco-economy.

He added that the country's entrenched totalitarianism in a multiracial society combined with territorial threats and the criminalisation of the state all played their part.