by GHK Lall Peru is in turmoil. Across the ocean, Pakistan is unsettled. Around those parts, Sri Lanka has settled down to a phony peace. Right next door, there is Brazil, and it is rocking. Even fortress America has its work cut out for it. The common thread is that the people are not taking what came out of the ...
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OPINION: One Mocha today, many Mochas in aggregate, then what?
by GHK Lall Huge sections of the population watched, read, listened, and absorbed what has unfolded in Mocha. Today, I make no point about passions, prejudices, or politics. I am thinking of two things; one is business oriented, while the other has to be the worst issue tabled at this time; I raise with trepidation, with few caring. I take ...
Read More »OPINION: Minister Benn and his charges: umbrellas, parachutes, pay, and badges
by GHK Lall I always had the eerie feeling that Hon. Minister Robeson Benn is American; or at least a broad streak of American in him. I received confirmation in spades the other day when I learned that Minister Benn refused an umbrella and braved the rain. Bareheaded, too. Now, in my book, that is leading by example. I have ...
Read More »OPINION: The state of the State
by GHK Lall Because of the time of year, I do my best to be about peace and goodwill to all men. Though many may find this hard to swallow, even at my sharpest, there are those two strains embedded. Indeed, it is despite how things are, the way men with power have transformed for the worse, and how the ...
Read More »OPINION: Mayor Narine, would inspire to discern identical civic fury, similar offiical efficiency
by GHK Lall I am disappointed at my brother, His Worship, Pandit Ubraj Narine, Mayor of Georgetown. His choice of subjects, and the way he went about his delivery left much to be desired. My position on discriminatory practices by the PPP Government is well-known, needs no reintroduction, speaks its own volumes. Relative to Mayor Narine, his frontal assault, through ...
Read More »OPINION: What will the PPP Gov’t do with access to information networks?
by GHK Lall I note with interest the development where Guyana has joined regional information sharing networks to facilitate going after financial criminals (Demerara Waves, December 11, 2022). On the face of it, this is good for Guyana, with many possible pluses. On the other hand, for those familiar with the real Guyana, the one below the surface glitter, this ...
Read More »OPINION: Venezuela and Chevron, Guyana and Exxon: the good, the bad, and the worse
By GHK Lall America is back in Venezuela. Well, Chevron has been officially cleared to setup shop across the border to make public what was happening on the sly. After all these years, I am still trying to put my finger on the pulse of America, though I had anticipated this, and said so. It was all for democracy here, ...
Read More »OPINION: Traffic – as Guyanese know it, follow it, live it
by GHK Lall A cautionary note is in order as I share on traffic today. All laws and rules are dumped into the garbage can. Well, that is precisely what most Guyanese have done with them. Frequently, I am ready to say all Guyanese, so prevalent, so every day, are the departures from the rules, dismissals of them, and making ...
Read More »OPINION: COP27 – a crime against humanity, a leadership vice
by GHK Lall I would sum up COP27 in two words. Promises, promises, promises. And dud, dud, dud. Most of those 200 plus should have done the world a favor, and stayed home. Nothing material comes out of these talkfests, so why have them? I give Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados’s Mia Mottley a pass for sheer ...
Read More »OPINION: Inclusion, sustainability for all -Ambassador Lynch speaks to truth
by GHK Lall Her Excellency, Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch spoke of inclusion and sustainability for all Guyanese recently (Demerara Waves, November 9). It was the American Ambassador, and not I. It is not the first time, nor the second, that Her Excellency has seen it fit to speak to inclusion in Guyana. It is either that she doesn’t know what ...
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