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Friday, April 26, 2024

Eyewitness: Safe to come out…

…from COVID 19? It’s very hard to find good news nowadays in the papers. Domestic violence, murders, robberies, rapes, fires, trash-talking politicians lusting for leadership...

Eyewitness: Enough of all this politics…

…around Christmas As you, dear readers, know, your Eyewitness follows politics (and cricket) like a bloodhound. After all, there’s no better blood sport than politics....

Eyewitness: Remembering… Burnham’s dictatorship

Yesterday, some followers of Burnham commemorated his 99th Birthday. Well, what better to remember him than through the world of our greatest historian Walter...

Eyewitness: Shaking up…Caricom

If nothing else, Guyana’s shaking up Caricom, which will be observing its 60th anniversary next year! In those sixty years, it’s been a case...

Eyewitness: On the Blackfoot…for the PNC

To the PNC, President Ali’s gotta be seen like a juggernaut – a humungous, unstoppable force that crushes everything in its path. And since...

Eyewitness: Riots as protests…with boots on the ground

Well, well, well!! Is anyone surprised that during new Opposition-backed protests, riots broke out against Indian Guyanese on the East Coast yesterday?? Ever since...

Eyewitness: Apartness…in Guyana?

“Apartheid” is the Afrikaans’ word for “apartness”, which became the official policy in South Africa after the National Party (NP) – the party of...

EYEWITNESS: Legitimacy…

…and equal opportunity Your Eyewitness is writing this on July 4…one day after the anniversary of the formation of Caricom and on the anniversary of...

Eyewitness…What… …to talk about?

After throwing all the blame on the PPP for not following up on THEIR promise to “have dialogue”, the PNC-led APNU/AFC coalition Government have...

EYEWITNESS: Returning to…

…Burnham’s playbook on unions? Your Eyewitness isn’t as jaded as he thought he was. He might’ve even proven he was an optimist. Some weeks ago,...

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GCCI blasts authorities for lack of action against reckless truck drivers

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