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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Eyewitness: Spare a prayer…

…for the Police Just the other day, your Eyewitness bemoaned the sad, continuing decline of the Guyana Police Force. As he said then, of course...

Eyewitness: The country’s business…

…and the PNC Leader of the Opposition (LOO), Joseph Harmon, continues to want to eat his cake and (at the same time) have it. It’s...

Eyewitness: Race in the open…

…on Oprah Your Eyewitness must confess he’s not at all enamoured about the extraordinary attention showered on the English Royal Family. He had parents growing...

Eyewitness: Where to begin…

…with the Police Our Police Force is comparatively small – a beefed-up 4900 ranks representing a 37% increase between 2014 and 2019 by the PNC....

Eyewitness: PNC’s hypocrisy…

…on women Today is International Women’s Day and presumably to commemorate this, the PNC is organising to “Protest Abuse and Discrimination against Women” this afternoon...

Recognising…Cheddi’s contributions

Yesterday was Cheddi Jagan’s death anniversary, and while your Eyewitness couldn’t make it to Babu Jaan, he’d like to pay homage to the great...

EYEWITNESS: Taking control… of our financing

With our economy set on an exponential growth trajectory on account of our just as exponentially growing oil industry, VP Bharrat Jagdeo had reason...

Eyewitness: A year…

…after PNC’s shamelessness Your Eyewitness waited till today to comment about the March 2nd elections. You know why? Because it’s only today, March 4, that...

Eyewitness: Discovery…

…by “Christopher” Harmon Even though, as soon as he landed on Watling Island, Columbus saw people running around the place, he announced he’d “discovered a...

Eyewitness: Playing the cards…

…you’re dealt with in oil Some folks just don’t get it. No one denies PNC’s Raphael “Nassau” Trotman sold us down the river on the...

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