Opinion

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC I don’t know how many of you have read Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints (1973). I put the point this way because, if you haven’t read it, I am not sure I want to recommend you do. It is a work of horrific racial and civilizational arrogance in which ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC Bullies only understand punishment. This is the conclusion arrived at by Professor Joshua Goldstein, author of the bestselling textbook on international relations on that subject, and a former colleague of mine at American University, Washington DC. Goldstein, who can be best described as a ‘defensive realist,’ came to this conclusion ...

By Dr Randy Persaud Critics like Dr Henry Jeffrey do not find good in anything the PPP does. They have a default position of tearing down genuine efforts aimed at socio-economic development and political change. Ironically, these same critics, wail night and day about the need to move the country forward. The latest iteration of the signature opposition wail surfaced ...

By Dr. Vivian M. Williams, Esq. Differences between the PNCR, the main opposition party in Guyana and the New York based North American Region Inc (NAR), have spilled into the public domain. The dispute is whether NAR should subject itself to the direction and control of the PNCR. The Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the party which operates from the ...

by GHK Lall One by one, little by little, there is a trickle then a torrent. Truth cannot be suppressed. A stirring, a small seeping, and soon there is a sea of all that is wrong. The plight of people victimized and marginalized. Pain that pierces can only stay inside for so long, despite the high hands with long whips. ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus It is fashionable for some to claim that while independence produced formal separation from the U.K., we are still not truly sovereign. Their main arguments are as follows – (1) that formal independence has not broken the mental/cultural dependence on White modernity; (2) that formal independence has not allowed us to break free from ...

by Dr. Nigel Westmaas National independence is often heralded as a definitive step towards self-determination and the realisation of a country’s aspirations. However, in the case of Guyana, like many post-colonial societies since formal independence, the promise of true autonomy and directed post-independence progress remains superficial in several ways. When Guyana gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966, it ...

By Dr Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC Linden Lewis has authored a commendable scholarly book on the ‘life and times’ of L.F.S. Burnham. This is no easy task for two reasons, both deeply embedded in the psyche of the Guyanese population both here in the homeland, and in the diaspora. Firstly, any book that is critical, and ...

by GHK Lall I will do something dangerous: give PPP General Secretary and Guyana’s all-purpose Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo the benefit of the doubt. I do so, despite being made to regret wasting my trust more often than I can count. Jagdeo said that the PPP Congress was not rigged for certain people to do as well as they did, ...

by GHK Lall The world is in an ugly place. I make an adjustment: politics have made for hateful relationships, inclusive of local politics and geopolitics. I point to a development on the foreign front. The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a copter crash underscored what I see, hear, and absorb. It emphasizes what I speak to, share ...