Eyewitness: Conversations…
…and hot air
Imagine the UN office in Guyana teamed up with the University of Guyana and the ERC (constituted of a representative of EVERY...
Stuck in a time warp… on “power sharing”
There are all sorts of initiatives being floated to “fix” our longsuffering country. There’s a “new Civil Society” group formed to “foster discussions on...
Eyewitness: What’s rights got to do with…
…PNC?
Your Eyewitness is pecking away at this rumination on “International Day for Human Rights” and wondering how these UN “days” benefit us, poor slobs...
Eyewitness: War break…
…in the PNC
Before the last elections campaign…things had gotten pretty heated after the war of attrition was launched by the PNC following their loss...
Eyewitness: Shaking up…

…GECOM
Surely, there can’t be a Guyanese alive who believes that GECOM – as the institution intended to deliver credible elections – can go forward...
Eyewitness: Changing…
…weird political logic
If there’s any doubt about it, the ferocious disputations among our people following our March elections should confirm the old saw that...
Eyewitness: Calling for an end…
...to “good boy” politics
Back in 2002 or so, after the Buxton gunmen launched waves of murderous attacks against surrounding villages – Andaiye wrote a...
Questioning…sodomy
Before your Eyewitness gets to the “topic de jour”, he would like to vent on one of the most ridiculous idiosyncrasies of Guyanese life:...
EYEWITNESS: Moving on… from Haiti
Once again, Haiti and Haitians are in the news. Poor Haiti…because they’re the poorest nation in the hemisphere, everybody washes their mouth on them....
Eyewitness: More cars…
…than bigan seeds
Your Eyewitness’s eye was caught by the headline that since 2013 – a mere SEVEN YEARS – more than 100,000 vehicles were...
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