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Opinion

OPINION: Beating up Babu Jaan

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Stabroek News editorial on Babu Jaan (3/17/2024) offers a perfect opportunity for us to dig down into the intellectual and political preferences, as well as the cultural foundations of the Guyanese urban elites. Although the editorial appears to be the work of a junior writer, the core values, perspectives, and yes, the biases of ...

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OPINION: President Ali squandered a great opportunity to be a true Caricom Leader in support of Haiti

by Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best President Ali missed a great opportunity to be a stellar Guyanese and Caricom leader in support of the Haitian people in true fashion. On the one hand, as Chairman of Caricom, and on the other as Guyana’s Executive President.  Arguably, Caricom’s heralded involvement, once again, in solving Haiti’s problems by spearheading and supporting ...

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OPINION: Thanks to Exxon’s Routledge, look at what oil discoveries have become

by GHK Lall President Alistair Routledge has been too long in Guyana.  In Guyanese speak, ‘he tink dat he alone gat sense.’  Mr. Routledge may even believe, like President Jagdeo, that Guyanese aint gat any sense worth talking about.  In fact, President Routledge has gotten so acclimated to Guyanese conditions that he has even joined the President Bharrat Jagdeo jamboree, ...

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OPINION: Exploiting Cheddi Jagan’s good name

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus There is an annual ritual in this country. Every March, die hard anti-PPP operatives wake up from a yearlong slumber of their conscience to pronounce Dr Cheddi Jagan as the greatest man who ever lived in this country. By the end of March, these political hacks from the PNCR led APNU+AFC, including those who ...

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OPINION: Motives, better leadership, and ;come right

by GHK Lall SN’s two lead captions of Monday March 11th paired Excellencies Ali and Jagdeo baring their teeth and talons at prospective parties and their personnel gearing up for the late 2025 elections.  It promises to be a humdinger, a real whatchamacallit.  President Ali went low: motives.  The former president Jagdeo came out swinging: come right.  Both national leaders ...

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OPINION: Prez Ali in Berbice: a leader that has lost touch with reality

By GHK Lall President Irfaan Ali went to Williamsburg, Corentyne, Berbice for the ribbon cutting for a new Republic Bank branch. The president spoke about loans, mortgages, investments, and more. He should have limited himself to ribbon cutting. It was a mouthful, according to a Demerara News article captioned, “More loans being repaid, borrowings increasingly diversified-President Ali” (March 09). When ...

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OPINION: Gaza, now an enclave of genocide and crimes against humanity

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC. More than 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by incessant military activities by the Israeli Defense Force. Most of the dead are women and children, and noncombatants. Although Israel undoubtedly has every right to defend itself, it does not have the right to wantonly violate every international and humanitarian ...

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OPINION: On Cheddi Jagan’s ideology and politics

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Much has been aired recently on Cheddi Jagan’s ideology and politics. A key part of the ongoing debate is the extent to which Jagan was a communist, or not. Relatedly, there is also intense disagreement on whether Jagan’s ideology pushed the West to remove and keep him from office.  My take is that Jagan ...

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