Last Updated on Sunday, 19 November 2023, 10:55 by Denis Chabrol By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Eighteen hundred years before Machiavelli, one the world’s first great realists, Kutilya (350 -283 BC), warned that one of the greatest threats to national security is an internally divided population. I doubt anyone in the APNU-AFC might have read Kutilya, but surely at ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 November 2023, 19:59 by Writer President Irfaan Ali on Saturday hinted that Guyana has received commitments from its “strategic partners” to respond to any military aggression from Venezuela after the December 3 referendum that seeks to annex the 160,000 square kilometre county of Essequibo. Asked whether Guyana would be seeking military support from the United ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 November 2023, 13:42 by Denis Chabrol Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves on Saturday sought to reassure Guyana that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states are individually backing Guyana that its borders are inviolable and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) must be ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 November 2023, 8:52 by Denis Chabrol by GHK Lall Yet again, I find myself agreeing with Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo.  When the Commissar soft-pedals Marxism-Leninism and dunks it over to the PPP Congress, I recognize a political operator of rare acumen.  Quick aside -if PPP hardheads think I am playing their General Secretary, they may ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 November 2023, 8:34 by Denis Chabrol The 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has formally agreed to back Saudi Arabia’s bid to host Expo 2030 in Riyadh and the establishment of an international water organisation,  in exchange for support in a range of areas including combatting climate change and boosting trade, investment and food security, according to ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 November 2023, 19:35 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has once again topped the region at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand announced during a broadcast on the Ministry of Education’s Facebook page on Friday. “Our students have performed excellently once again…This is evident ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 November 2023, 19:30 by Denis Chabrol Former Foreign Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee on Friday said the United States (US) should be asked to provide military assistance to deter neighbouring Venezuela from possibly invading Guyana after the December 3, 2023 referendum that calls for the annexation of the Essequibo County. “All things being equal, it is ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 November 2023, 9:50 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday rejected suggestions that his party has abandoned its working-class platform and has instead become one of small-scale businessowners, in stark contrast to his own party’s dogma that names the “petite bourgeoisie” as one of three enemies. While ...

Last Updated on Friday, 17 November 2023, 9:52 by Denis Chabrol Venezuela’s Vice President, Delcy Rodriguez lied to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this week when she claimed that Venezuelan migrants in Guyana were being mistreated, the Vice President of Guyana Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “It’s a lie! We have condemned xenophobia and we’ve ensured that people continue ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 16 November 2023, 12:17 by Denis Chabrol by Kit Nascimento Venezuela has never owned the Essequibo and never will. Long before we became an independent country, the Essequibo region, that is all the land due west of the Essequibo River, within the boundaries of Guyana, was part of British Guiana. Unfortunately, however, as Sir Shridath Ramphal, ...