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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Eyewitness: Raising concerns…

…of, or on, PNC? Well, look wha happen heah! Joe Harmon – erstwhile Guyana’s Leader of the Opposition (Guy LOO) – has written to the...

EYEWITNESS: End of an era… in Cuba

Raul Castro has resigned from his last bastion of power – leadership of the Cuban Communist Party that’s ruled the island since 1959. The...

Eyewitness: Moving on…

…in Afghanistan? US President Joe Biden has just announced that he’ll be pulling out all American troops from Afghanistan. We’ve heard this before…notably from President...

Eyewitness: Whatever happened to…

…elections reform Now, your Eyewitness wants to make it clear from the onset that he’s making a distinction between “elections reform” and “electoral reform”. So,...

Eyewitness: Back to…

…backtrack? Here it is, just when your Eyewitness thought that the “backtrack” route to the US had been shut down for good (by the US...

Eyewitness: Playing with fire…

…on UN vote The PNC keep complaining they don’t get a fair shot at presenting their views inside and outside of Guyana. Most recently LOO...

Eyewitness: Creating…

…new agri vistas We’ve been warned so many times about the dreaded “Dutch Disease” after we (OK, OK, the foreign oil companies!) struck oil, that...

EYEWITNESS: National concerns…

…on vendors and COVID-19 Yesterday, your Eyewitness noted – en passant – that while the established businesses in Georgetown are being monitored, and even fined,...

Eyewitness: Running with the hares… and hunting with the hounds

Ain’t it wonderful that we were once ruled by the British? For one thing, we get to use all those quaint expressions that were...

Eyewitness: COVID-19 creating…

…a solitary world Twenty-five hundred years ago, Aristotle observed that man was a “social” animal. He would’ve cogitated on what he knew about Greek civilisation...

Recent Articles

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Taxi driver busted with 22kg of ganja

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Over G$110M raised for the Palestinians following appeal during Ramadan 2024

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Letter: Unless PPC is given authority, it cannot cancel any contracts

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Guyanese scholar Dr Vivian Rambihar inducted into Walk of Fame

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