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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Eyewitness: Of Reports and omissions…

…from ERC With great fanfare, the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) was created out of the Constitutional Reform process – precipitated by the PNC bludgeoning the...

Eyewitness: Save…

…the children The commemorations are coming so fast and furious, sometimes your Eyewitness just can’t keep up. Seems there’s so much to be done in...

Eyewitness: Workers’ woes…

…in the cane fields Your Eyewitness just read about one of the biggest “eye-pass” he’s seen in years. In fact, it amounts to “rass-pass”!! And...

Eyewitness: The great divide…

…over Venezuelan recalcitrance President Irfaan Ali has flown up to participate in this year’s 76 meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Yep…it’s been 76...

Eyewitness: Raising the temperature…

…in Essequibo Well, well, well!! Used to be a time when Berbice and Essequibo were far from the madding crowd of brick throwing and burning...

Eyewitness: Paying homage…

…to democracy In the long struggle of mankind to rise out of a brutal past that began in caves - with spiked clubs used to...

Eyewitness: Who do they think they’re fooling…

…with the protests? PNC-wannabe-leader Aubrey Norton was nabbed by the Police on Monday for allegedly “leading an illegal procession”. He and a dozen others were...

Eyewitness: Moving on…

…with Caribbean unity The Caribbean was the crucible for the European experiment to create a world order based not just on economic “accumulation by dispossession”,...

Eyewitness: Milking…

…the diaspora Today the word “diaspora” is all over the news including in Guyana but kinda new at playing the diaspora game. We’ve come a...

EYEWITNESS: Survival… in the Big Apple

That Hurricane Ida posed a threat to life and limb in NYC had to’ve surprised most of us. It certainly surprised your Eyewitness! Weren’t...

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