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Saturday, May 4, 2024

Eyewitness: Heroes…like Rodney

Yesterday, if Burnham hadn’t assassinated Walter Rodney, Rodney would’ve been 80 years old. He was a true Guyanese hero. Like everything in life, deciding...

Eyewitness: The battle…over hair

Here it was the Ministry of Education was just trying to show it was cool with the UN exhortation du jour – “International Women’s...

Eyewitness: Knock… and war’s knock-back

How could we NOT talk about the war in Ukraine. Aren’t we seeing it up close and personal, because the entire globalised communications system...

Eyewitness: Getting closer…with Suriname

When you come to think of it – and we really never really think of it – the fact that we feel closer to...

Eyewitness: Rising… prices

Way back in the day, alarm at the rising cost of living was expressed in the folk ditty down on the sugar estates: “Oh...

EYEWITNESS: Bitter… sugar?

The PPP Government’s under fire for not reopening the 4 sugar estates unilaterally closed by Granger and the PNC AFTER his personally-appointed COI recommended...

EYEWITNESS: Post-Phagua …panegyric

Your Eyewitness must confess that Phagua – or Holi, as it’s also called – is right up there on top of his hit parades...

Eyewitness: Ripple effect…from the battlefield

Yes, your Eyewitness knows that flour price has gone up…along with everything else. Excepting maybe mini-bus fares. Yesterday, your Eyewitness had to get from...

Eyewitness: Challenges…in agriculture

Poor CGX. They’re always the bridesmaid at our oil weddings – even though they’d taken the lead in drilling offshore way back in 2000...

Eyewitness: It’s not over…till the last ball’s bowled

You, Dear Readers, would know your Eyewitness is a cricket tragic. So, it couldn’t have been easy to keep focus on this critical aspect...

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See full statement from the Guyana Police Force: A 23-year-old prisoner, Shamar Davis called Stamma of Lot 56 B Field, Sophia who has been on...