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Thursday, May 16, 2024

Eyewitness: Dead end…

…on Caricom? A veteran European analyst, writing on the Caribbean in another newspaper, was pretty bleak about Caricom’s fortunes in the days ahead. In a...

Eyewitness: Getting together…

…but not singing Kumbaya This Emancipation Day, because of COVID 19, “Emancipation Day” was understandably restricted. There were still several gatherings – notably the one...

EYEWITNESS: Free at last …in 2021?

Well, here we are, 183 years after our enslaved ancestors were finally emancipated and we’re still talking about whether the promise of freedom has...

EYEWITNESS: Emancipation eve… on the plantations

Your Eyewitness is thinking about what was going on in the minds of the 82,000 Africans on July 31, 1838, who were to be...

Eyewitness: Justice…

…for Police The Police is the most visible symbol of the essence of the State: it has the power to inflict the ultimate sanction on...

Eyewitness: The runner stumbles…

…on COVID-19 Ethical issues don’t only apply to humans, they extend – or should extend –- to the workings of institutions. After all, the latter...

Eyewitness: Almost a year ago…

…PNC held us hostage After the PPP was installed into office exactly five months after the March 2, 2020 elections – putting us into the...

Eyewitness: Preparing…

…for emancipation Well, here we are…less than a week away from celebrating Emancipation Day and your Eyewitness is getting pretty excited. After all, we just...

Eyewitness: Changing…

…the Constitution “Constitutionalism” declares there must be explicit rules governing the distribution of power in a society and these become the supreme law of the...

EYEWITNESS: All talk… by G-20 on Climate Change

Some folks in Guyana really are delusional about their importance in the world. They eat up the platitudes emanating from up north on their...

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