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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Eyewitness: Playing games…

…with commemorations While Guyana was undergoing a Hamlet-like existential crisis on May 5 over Indian Arrival Day – “to call it that or not call...

Eyewitness: Chilling effect…

…of Granger’s libel suit Now we know why Granger had converted his Pearl home into a bunker – reminiscent of the one Hitler had holed...

EYEWITNESS: Squandering… our tax dollars

There’s an old aphorism attributed to Tip O’Neil, the old plain-spoken Speaker of the US House of Congress: “A billion here, a billion there…pretty...

Eyewitness: Hope…

…for wider vaccine production From the beginning, when the COVID-19 pandemic came straight out of Wuhan, in China, scientists and folks with any background in...

Eyewitness: Fixing…

…the electoral system? Even before they finally took office, the PPP vowed to work to straighten out the electoral system, so that Guyana won’t have...

Eyewitness: “Us” vs “Them”…

…by the PNC The fallout from the Walton-Desir outburst about “mentally lazy” Indian-Guyanese “in contrast” to rationally actuated African-Guyanese continues to roil the blogosphere and...

Eyewitness: Recognising…

…the Press So yesterday was “World Press Freedom Day”. As a card-carrying member of the fraternity, your Eyewitness followed the messages by the big ones...

Eyewitness: Snagged…

…by PNC’s artifice Back in 2018, the PNC Government received widespread condemnation when they drafted and debated a draconian bill on Cybercrime in the National...

EYEWITNESS: Lost love…

…of labour What can we say about labour the day after “Labour Day” that wouldn’t sound laboured? Most Guyanese are sick and tired of the...

EYEWITNESS: Foot-and-mouth disease… in newer PNC leaders

A lot of folks, including your ever-optimistic Eyewitness, had hoped that “the younger generation” would’ve moved past the racial stereotypes that kept us blinkered...

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