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Friday, May 17, 2024

EYEWITNESS: Cricket…

…played livelier!! As you, dear reader, would know if you’ve been reading your Eyewitness for any length of time, he’s a “cricket tragic” – that...

EYEWITNESS: Meaningful…

…consultations? One of Burnham’s quirks was to merely observe the FORM of the law. As to its SUBSTANCE, that was something else!! So when he...

EYEWITNESS What is…

…real emancipation? Your Eyewitness is getting some not quite comfortable vibes about what “Emancipation” means to some people. Now, the word itself means “to free”...

EYEWITNESS: Why give up…

…on Reparations With Emancipation Day just a day away, a letter writer – from the name, Michael A Dingwall, probably a person of African Decent...

EYEWITNESS: Free…

…to starve We’re all preparing to CELEBRATE Emancipation Day. But we really ought to ask ourselves what exactly was achieved by “Emancipation”. In slavery, we...

EYEWITNESS: Constitutional…

…Frankenstein In trying to create a “human being”, Dr Victor Frankenstein took various and sundry parts from cadavers dug up from graves, put them together,...

EYEWITNESS: Return…

…of kick-down-the-door banditry? We Guyanese have a way with words when it comes to naming crimes, which leaves VERY little to the imagination. “Mugging” doesn’t...

EYEWITNESS: It’s a gas…

…to sell Enmore The PNC must be rolling in mirth now that Enmore Estate hasn’t only been shut down and allowed to turn to bush,...

EYEWITNESS: Sore points…

…about NYT report That NYT reporter certainly seems to’ve struck a raw nerve in some folks here with his story, “The $20 Billion question for...

EYEWITNESS: Buktas in a knot…

…over NYT report on oil prospects As his job demands, your (conscientious) Eyewitness scours the dailies on his phone even before rolling out of bed...

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