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Saturday, May 18, 2024

Eyewitness: Headless…and hapless PNC

It was indeed a disappointment for your Eyewitness when the Budget Debate kicked off yesterday. After the Government’s Finance Minister traditionally presents the Budget...

Eyewitness: Highways to happiness…in the Budget

As your Eyewitness has been emphasising, the PPP Government is focusing on building up our infrastructure – starting with highways. For a country like...

EYEWITNESS: Moving on …but up or down politically?

They say change is inevitable…you just can’t stop the moving finger of time that “writes and moves on”. Wasn’t it fella Zeno who said...

Fallout…from PNC infighting

The PNC seem determined to keep the PPP in Government for the next decade or two. Not that they actually WANT this outcome, but...

Eyewitness: Budget…for takeoff

Back in the day (of Jagan and Burnham), there were two competing models of growth and development: there was the communist model, represented by...

Eyewitness: Demands…from budget

Well, as your Eyewitness pecks away (with one finger!) at his keyboard to get this out, like everyone else, he’s waiting for the Finance...

Eyewitness: Growth…vs development?

We’ve been hearing a great deal about how our economy’s grown, is growing – and will be growing. But, as usual, the ultimate question...

Eyewitness: Beware…of the extremists

For very good reason, there’s a lot of difference between the law of the jungle and the rule of law. The former prevailed from...

Eyewitness: Renewal…of Georgetown?

With all the initiatives by the First Lady and her husband’s administration to return some dignity to our capital city’s appearance, do you think...

EYEWITNESS: Hypocrisy …in Opposition’s tangled web

We’ve been informed, dear readers, that Sanctimonious Granger – Representative of the APNU/AFC List (RAAL) – will be venturing out from his Pearl bunker...

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