Opinion

Tribute to Keith Stanislaus Massiah, S.C., O.R. – Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs and Professor of Law, University of Guyana  By The Hon. Mde. Louise Esther Blenman, Justice of Appeal, The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court      Both Guyana and the Caribbean have lost one of its most brilliant and fecund minds. ...

By Paul Sanders, New York, April 2020 Take it or leave it. There is an Indian Guyana, and there is an African Guyana. And somewhere in between there’s a sort of a No Man’s Land – for the moroons. The trouble is both Indo and Afro Guyanese have serious vision impairment; they don’t see eye to eye; they can’t get ...

by GHK Lall As I read of different utterings at different times from the foreigners, my sense is that there is a continuing shift in the wind.  It is steadily stronger in one direction only.  I would advise all, especially coalition leaders, to pay attention, to read carefully the messages being transmitted, within the limited confines of diplomatic speak.  There ...

by Nigel Westmaas  Guyana’s recent general elections, held on March 2, remains mired in an implausible and very suspicious delay that is hardly transparent. It is already one of the most contentious and potentially dangerous elections since independence. The country now awaits a formal supervised recount but at certain moments it seemed as if the society would erupt into chaos ...

by Paul Sanders, New York, April 2020 Welcome to the new abnormal. Disinfectants. Bleach. Blast the body with ultra violet rays too. That should do it. Covid-19 patients should be up and running with this proposed therapy. In no time. In his outlanish display of quackery on Thursday, the Quack-in-Chief stunned medical professionals – as well as television viewers – ...

BY GHK Lall President David Granger has seen his name and his reputation dragged back and forth through the mud.  If he hasn’t, I have and on a near daily basis in the two newspapers that I scan.  If this is what the mainstream has felt compelled to present, from a wide array of positions and voices, then I shudder ...

by Paul Sanders, New York It will probably take a degree in law. Or political science. Or whatever! They should have seen this coming. Guyanese are living through the world’s stupidest era. Stupidity, while innately comical especially in the political sphere, often comes with a side of brutality. And we are forced to suffer fools. It took, more or less, ...

by Paul Sanders, New York Had you watched Trump’s press briefing on Monday you’d conclude by now that the man occupying the White House should be in an inpatient mental-facility. His manic, gibbering ragefest was a complete meltdown shitshow of a failed man who has long ago passed the limits of his competence and knowledge. It was an angry, needy ...

By GHK Lall Oil prices, the futures to be precise, went into negative territory for the first time in their volatile stormy history. For many it is like the end of the world. Yet, here are Guyanese lost in the impenetrable hazes of their own little world, who could care less. The bounty bestowed on us is now worth nothing, ...

by GHK Lall Though I had warned to manage expectations, I still harbored faint hopes that norms would prevail, that self-respect would take priority, and that whatever processes are agreed upon and employed would be the end of the matter. My lingering strand of optimism was that all of this would lead to the final stop in this most grueling, ...