By GHK Lall I am ashamed. I am not sure, nor do I care, how many Guyanese I speak for but I am insulted and embarrassed at some of what came through from the CCJ today. Any self-respecting Guyanese, and I am not certain as to how many are still around, should feel the same way. Did matters really have ...

By GHK Lall What was feared is already coming to pass and in the worst way possible. What has been written about, and predicted about, and gone against the grain about, in more than one public forum, has unfolded in less than 24 hours since the CCJ went public. To refresh memories, the questions posed repeatedly in the last seven ...

By GHK Lall The first thing that I will say about the CCJ’s decision is that it is Solomonic. Profound, and makes me want to stand straight and remove hat in recognition of the kind of wisdom revealed that is unknown in this country. The critical may look upon this and see a non-decision. I see otherwise. In one fell ...

by GHK Lall There is this article in the Stabroek News of June 13th, titled, “Another police rank speaks on corrupt practices in force” that says so much about here. A dirty plot thickens and darkens; many such plots. All the sewage ingredients are there: murder; coverup; de lil fine change of a cool million; de “boss man;” mole(s); another ...

—A response to the deaths of Karen Shondell Reid and her offspring of Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne). by Pere DeRoy PhD student in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas Many women in Guyana think about pregnancy and childbirth as a blessing and a curse. A common thread in stories of pregnancy and ...

by GHK Lall I read that the General Manager of the state-run Guyana Chronicle, has been empowered to return to the job. I think that Mr. Duncan should do the decent thing, the honorable thing, and resign. I learn, also, that this surprising development was cleared by the Hon. Prime Minister. I suggest that Mr. Nagamootoo proceed voluntarily on a ...

by GHK Lall The CCJ has signaled that, if it has to, then it will take full advantage of the 90-day window allowed to hand down decisions on the matters that Guyana escalated before it. Approximately a third of that clock has expired. Notwithstanding that loss, if not lost moments, I believe that truly patriotic and nationally-minded leaders have an ...

By GHK Lall How could you, Mr. President? Say it ain’t so, Excellency… Except that it is. I am the short end of the stick here; it is a dirty, undesired one. Spiked too. For there I was repeatedly trashing those tardy public servants, who lapsed through negligence, or contempt, or impatience, or disinterest (or some combination of all those) ...

By GHK Lall “NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza has made ‘whiteness’ toxic, Department of Education insiders claim” (NY Post May 18). Unfortunately, switch the color scheme to ‘brownness’ or ‘blackness’ and that claim would quickly find volume and mileage right here in political and bureaucratic Guyana. All one has to do is weigh the years. First, some foreign context. The ...

by GHK Lall I thought that this government had hard and heavy matters with which it is wrestling strenuously. I thought that this government had serious—very serious—priorities on which it was determined to table and see through to successful ends. And to do so, despite all the obstacles and forces arrayed against its efforts. Apparently, I am woefully wrong on ...