It was the Mandirs of Hindus that were burnt and desecrated in the post 1987 coups era. From this decade the Europeans saw the Indians as not ready to accept White hegemony as had the Melanesian Fijians thereafter and conspired to create, in the minds of the Melanesian the Indians as the threat to their interests rather than Whites. In all of the early constitutions, including the 1970 Independence one, the Whites had great overrepresentation in the Legislature. We urge all Guyanese to reject notions of racial supremacy coming from any quarter. This will take us no where but into oblivion.
All constitutions give access to power to a certain group or class.
Note their attitudes to their own indigenous peoples, and the politics of the 1990s that voted nonwhite immigration. Fresh elections under the same conditions as you asserted will bring about the same crisis. In your editorial you went through the numbers argument and, in a sense, indicated that the 1997 Constitution was a fudged and counterfeit constitution. Hence, the reactionary experiment of former Governor General of New Zealand Paul Reeves should be abandoned. The revised constitution was seen as opening a way forward.