Opinion

By Dr Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus Every now and again someone emerges in this land who claims to be the new Messiah. They come in big, bad, and with bad-ass bravado. They spout, tout, and shout. They assume the identity of saints, geniuses, pundits, men who will knock senses in the minds of a lost nation. They talk and write ...

by GHK Lall A youngster was prompted by someone he felt he had to please to attack my servanthood and, worse still, my integrity.  Because he had to please at all costs, it was felt that any means would suffice, and the lower the better.  He did go low: splicing and cherry-picking, and exaggerating and distorting.  The lengths that is ...

by GHK Lall For a while now operatives of the PPP have come up with a new one: those who are haters of the PPP.  It is a most peculiar contention since some members of the People’s Progressive Party can be so full of hate that it has taken hold of them like a disease.  I think this same hatefulness ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC The Thursday press conferences by Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo are becoming a sort of media feature of the week for many people. These press conferences alternate between PPP headquarters at Freedom House, and the Office of the President. At the Robb Street events, Jagdeo speaks in the capacity of General Secretary ...

The much-vaunted national clean-up turned out to be a disgraceful damp squib for many parts of Georgetown where the citizenry, businessowners and visitors alike cry out for that elusive long-lasting solution to the sanitation and drainage problems. The exercise on September 2, 2023 demonstrated either a cosmetic sweep-up, a failed experiment, dismally poor implementation or yet another photo opportunity. The ...

by GHK Lall No!  Why is it that senior Americans fail to understand that the PPP does not need America anymore?  There was a time that America and its swarming presence had its uses.  Well, apparently not anymore, and this is regardless of how one looks at the rather crude and rather rude dismissal by His Excellency Ali of US ...

Dr. Nigel Westmaas It is a remarkable display of duplicity and contortionism to pass judgment on the racial, social, and ideological composition of specific political parties, social organizations, and individuals (along with the strange preoccupation with groups they consider small, irrelevant or dead) in Guyana without subjecting the same critical race and class analysis to the political party currently in ...

By Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC. History is the most abused of all disciplines. It is bent this way and that by charlatans, political hucksters, and even the more erudite among us, to achieve pedestrian little victories. Rosydale Forde’s response to my call for an apology for his boorish accusations against President Ali comes to mind. Mr. ...

by Roysdale Forde S.C, M.P  Hereunder is a response to Professor Emeritus Randy Persaud who opined “APNU’s Roysdale Forde A. Forde owes President Ali an apology,” as published in Demerara Waves on 30th August 2023. A government that picks fights with the citizens, is devoid of vision and bankrupt of ideas to unite the races and move the country forward, consistent ...

By Dr Randolph Persaud Professor Emeritus, American University, Washington DC The CARICOM Reparations Commission advanced the following Ten Point Reparation plan in 2014 –  Full formal apology; Indigenous peoples development programmes; funding for reparations to Africa; the establishment of cultural institutions and the return of cultural heritage; assistance in remedying the public health crisis; education programmes; the establishment of cultural ...