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Friday, May 17, 2024

EYEWITNESS: Long and winding …road to Lethem

When the Beatles came out with their #1 Billboard hit “the Long and Winding Road” in 1970, surely, they had Guyana in mind. Even...

EYEWITNESS: Moving ahead …on food?

You’ll have to excuse your Eyewitness for not getting too excited by the hype and exhortations coming out of our Agri-Investment Expo bash. Not...

Eyewitness: Punching…after the clinch

Your Eyewitness is a boxing fan. He knows some of you, dear readers, might be surprised at this confession!! But hey…he came up in...

Eyewitness: Building…a new Caricom?

The first ever “Agri Investment Forum & Expo” kicks off today at our Convention Center, and it’s gonna be a biggie!! You can gauge...

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: The wages of…extremism

When your Eyewitness read about the latest act of terrorism in America, he had a sinking feeling in his stomach that was becoming all...

Eyewitness: Death of…privacy

Recently, there’s been a whole lotta indignation and foot stamping about social media and journalism on the actions of the Government and vice versa....

EYEWITNESS: Encounters …and PNC rumbles

Imagine convening a meeting – demanded by the Constitution – between the President and the Opposition Leader to discuss some constitutional appointments taking one-and-a-half...

EYEWITNESS: Getting back on stream… with manganese

You’ll be able to place your Eyewitness chronologically when he tells you he remembers when manganese was being shipped from the Northwest District –...

Eyewitness: The law…”is a ass”?

Charles Dickens published Oliver Twist in 1838 – the same year Slavery was abolished and Indentureship began. Slavery, of course, had been “legal” for...

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