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Thursday, May 2, 2024

EYEWITNESS: Conduct…

…and misconduct of public officials Your Eyewitness is still floored by the barefacedness of this PNC government. Three years after they had sneaked into office...

EYEWITNESS: Railroading…

…scapegoats Back in biblical times, the Jewish Chief Priest would select a goat and ritually conferred all the “sins” of the tribe – as defined...

EYEWITNESS: Lightly grilled…

…Facebook boss It’s not every corporate head that get’s their life story presented by Hollywood just after they hit 26! But then Mark Zuckerberg –...

EYEWITNESS: Retribution…

…for drugs There’s this gadfly GHK Lall, who’s parlayed a career in writing long-winded smarmy letters into the top job at the Gold Board. You...

EYEWITNESS: Looking back…

…at MLK and 1968 Fifty years ago last week – April 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King was assassinated. Over here in Guyana, Burnham had...

EYEWITNESS: Paying…

…for slavery CariCom will be writing Britain and the other European countries that conducted and benefited from the African Slave Trade and plantation slavery, to...

Daily Eyewitness Column – Poetry

Poetry… ...And prose Even though March 21 was officially, “World Poetry Day”, the Social Cohesion Ministry commemorated it last Friday night at the Umana Yana. Your...

EYEWITNESS: Money…

…and principles? Word is, Finance Minister Winston Jordan just signed on the dotted line for a US$900 million loan from the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB). If...

EYEWITNESS: Dazzling them…

…with industrial-strength BS It seems this PNC-led Government is diligently following the advice of the droll comedian WC Fields, who once famously suggested: “If you...

EYEWITNESS: Do fuh do…

…na obeah in trade The other foot has come down on Trump’s intemperate slapping of tariffs on steel and aluminium: China retaliated by imposing tariffs...

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