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Thursday, May 9, 2024

Eyewitness: Sowing the wind…and reaping the (PNC) whirlwind

It’s interesting how pithy yet so profound so many Biblical sayings are!! Your Eyewitness hopes he doesn’t come off sounding arrogant or anything!! But,...

Eyewitness: Looking back…at Enmore

Who woulda thought?? Plantation Enmore is no mo’…gone forever…. What should we do?? Look back in anger?? Or in resignation?? Enmore and Leonora were...

Eyewitness: Reviewing…dismal GuySuCo

Well…well…well. For the first time since Aug 2020, we witnessed a meeting involving GuySuCo in which horse dung wasn’t being shovelled at the Guyanese...

Eyewitness: The unkindest cut…to the PNC

Your Eyewitness was absolutely floored when he read about the spanking new PNC headquarters on the Agricola Public Road being burglarised. Oh tempora!! Oh...

Eyewitness: Remembering…Rodney on Burnham’s dictatorship

Today’s the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of our greatest historian Walter Rodney, who lived his aphorism that the point is not to just...

Eyewitness: Shooting from the hip…and at (Caricom’s) foot?

Addressing the IX Summit of the Americas with US President Biden and his Vice President Harris in the audience (among 21 other leaders of...

Eyewitness: Rubbing shoulders…at the LA summit

Now don’t you, for a moment, think that Los Angeles was chosen as the venue for the “IX Summit of the Americas” gig by...

Eyewitness: Cranky…or crass?

At first your Eyewitness didn’t believe the report, that Opposition Leader Norton hadn’t wanted to shake Pres Ali’s hand. He’d seen the first still...

Eyewitness: Telling the world…like it is

One thing about President Ali is – he tells it like it is!! And that’s very refreshing in these days of double-speak, evasions, and...

Eyewitness: Moutar vs guitar…in code of conduct

There’s been a lot of kvetching and bitching by the Opposition and their myrmidons about the appointment of the Integrity Commission by Pres Ali....

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US Navy aircraft to conduct flyover exercise in Guyana

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