One thing that seems to repeat itself is the continued blackout on diaspora, a legacy carried on from the previous government to the new one. Diaspora still remains a distant constituency of “those guys”, easily shoved and shafted, at best, thrown token representation.

In the past five years of the previous government, there was a diaspora representative at the Prime Minister’s office and another at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Whatever the efforts of these officials, neither one of them recorded any meaningful gains for the diaspora. For their high-profile and strategic placement, they were both a total let-down.  Read More