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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

EYEWITNESS: Land, land everywhere… but folks still squatting on it

After his piece on the Success Squatting saga yesterday, your Eyewitness was reminded by a friend that this land distribution problem is older than...

Eyewitness: Moving on

…to where? Your Eyewitness has learnt that Barbados is going to sever all links with Britain and its Monarchy and declare itself a Republic. Oh...

EYEWITNESS: (PNC) Pot calling… (Trump) pot black

Some people really have no shame. And in Guyana right now, a whole lotta those people can be found in the PNC leadership following...

Eyewitness: Fiddling…

…while Guyana burns Well, well, well: mout’ open and story jump out!! For three years, your Eyewitness has been railing with upraised arms against the...

Eyewitness: Down with…

…racial discrimination? Sunday shouldn’t have been just another day of rest. It was, after all, the “International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination” for...

EYEWITNESS: Lost love…

…of labour What can we say about labour the day after “Labour Day” that wouldn’t sound laboured? Most Guyanese are sick and tired of the...

Eyewitness: Rodney’s words…

…on the Burnham Dictatorship Today, some “Rodneyites” from the WPA are rehabilitating the dictator Burnham for his “progressive” foreign policy, his “socialist” nationalisations, and his...

Eyewitness: The best-laid plans…

…for a plural society South Africa – in which widespread violence, looting, killings and general mayhem recently broke out – can be seen as the...

Eyewitness: Don’t…

…knock our forests Back in the day, when President Jagdeo floated the idea that Guyana could make money by simply not cutting down its forests,...

Eyewitness: PNC at 64…

…floundering The PNC held a gathering to mark their 64th anniversary, but the leader didn’t show up! He sent a taped message!! It really symbolises...

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