Opinion

By GHK Lall Conflict of interest is in season today. It is good. It is better that those who are troubled by the conflicts of interest in others, first look within themselves. First find what should not be. It’s a start, and there is hope, minimal as it is, that they may use the real or created conflicts of interest ...

By Dr Randy Persaud Some things make you angry. Other things can make you sad. And then there are things that just make you wonder. You wonder why. Why would a presumably rational individual who often professes love of country conduct such a vile attack against an international brand just opened in Guyana? If you know me, you know I ...

by GHK Lall To all new political contestants, I say welcome. Happy elections hunting. Guyanese need some fresh air from fresh faces, fresh ideas from fresh heads. The political and electoral territory has never been riper, more tillable. There are three basic questions. Can the new arrivals in the political crab barrel make some headway? Make a little headway, not ...

by R. Evan Ellis In its public discourse, unlike the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the People’s Republic of China has avoided directly challenging Western-style democracy as a system of governance. Nonetheless, Beijing has been increasingly assertive that its own system provides lessons for economic and political organization for developing societies. That posture inherently, if subtly, presents China to the developing ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I have no interest in analyzing any individual for the sake of it. That stuff is just boring. Yet, GHK Lall’s intense and almost pathological focus on Jagdeo forces one to ask questions about why the relentless attention. I said before, and it is worth repeating here: GHK Lall is making a career through ...

by GHK Lall Minister of Natural Resources, Hon. Vickram Bharrat claims that he is the victim of defamation, and his lawyer has written the alleged slanderer to this effect. Mr. Enrico Woolford, veteran journalist, is the alleged defamer and he is absolutely taking no ownership of anything slanderous or defamatory. This he has made clear in his response to Minister ...

By Dr Randy Persaud Recently, I took cognizance of GHK Lall’s ‘existential subjectivity’. This was a fancy way of speaking about the fantastic elasticity St. Gabriel takes with facts, with reality, and with the truth. You have seen the ways he bends the facts, twists and turns them, manipulates them, all in the name of achieving a level of textual ...

By GHK Lall In this continuation of yesterday’s contribution on Bharrat Jagdeo’s reaction to Nigel Hughes’ ascendancy to leadership in a major opposition party, the focus is limited to two issues: conflict of interest and interests. Jagdeo has driven himself into a frenzy about Nigel Hughes’ seeming conflict of interest in his professional (legal) relationship with Exxon. Interesting! This is ...

By GHK Lall I have never seen Bharrat Jagdeo running so scared. Indeed, any leader that has so many clouds and shadows hanging over him would be running scared as the impact of Nigel Hughes’ leadership presence registers. Jagdeo is vulnerable on so many fronts that scared only scratches the surface: he is transfixed by dark fears and terrified by ...

By GHK Lall From the pages of the Holy Bible, we got the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The names given to them and now etched in hearts all over are Conquest, War, Famine, Death. From the sacred soil of this Motherland, Guyana, I give my fellow Guyanese, the Four Horsemen of Oil. The names I give them represent the ...