Opinion

By Retired Rear Admiral Dr Gary Best For sixty years and counting, Venezuela has occupied Guyana’s sovereign half of Ankoko Island, along the Guyana-Venezuela border. This should be kept in mind as we navigate the Argyle Declaration. Importantly, the Argyle Declaration recently forged between Guyana and Venezuela leaves much to be desired, except the saving grace of weak international recognition ...

Tribute to Rex Herbert Mc KAY SC by Hon. Mde. Louise Esther Blenman, Chief Justice of Belize The legal titan, icon, legend Rex Herbert Mc Kay SC OR CCH departed this life having completed sixty five years of excellent legal service. The legal profession is bereft. Rex was a hard worker, disciplined, committed, unrelenting and brilliant. His work ethic and ...

by GHK Lall I admit to a sense of awe. If it were not for its mental deformity, it would have been a thing of exceptional beauty. I point to and speak of the PPP Government machinery. It is supposed to be working for the national interest, through accentuating the positive, when such may be nothing but a figment of ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus In a recent letter to the editor, Mr. Christopher Ram suggested commentators express opinions for the good of the order. The comment was made in the context of some caution provided by Hon. Anil Nandlall (SC), Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs. Mr. Nandlall (SC) cautioned that criticism of ExxonMobil can be used ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We should expect that in a time of existential threat, all political parties will put aside old partisan interests, and instead, rise like the Maginot Line to unreservedly defend the National Interest. And while the PNCR and Mr. Norton have answered that call with heads held high, we cannot say that the WPA’s initial ...

By GHK Lall In a December 16th article titled “Opposition Leader welcomes Guyana-Venezuela peace deal, but criticizes government for lack of preparation for Ali-Maduro meeting.”  I recognize the first part of that caption.  Mr. Norton’s criticism has its place, absorbed with some understanding.  If it sounds as though I am trying to have it both ways, or taking two sides, ...

By GHK Lall The Declaration of Argyle (Declaration) is sure to unleash a torrent of comments in Georgetown and Caracas, and other places as well.  Some will be on the delightful side, others critical.  I try for the clinical.  There will be this in both Guyana and Venezuela celebrating how they did well; with dissenters screaming their disappointment, and denouncements.  ...

By Retiired Rear Admiral, Gary Best; PHd (International Relations) I argue in this piece that the only matter that President Ali can possibly discuss, if he attends this hurried meeting, is for President Maduro to walk back all his decisions to annex Essequibo, particularly since the matter is before the ICJ forfinal determination and, consequently, the multiple prior methods for ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Some things are worth repeating because not only they are true, but also because some of these truths have real meaning in our contemporary national situation. It is this context that I would like to state once again, that Jagan and Burnham should not be blamed for the conduct of Venezuelan foreign policy viz ...

by GHK Lall Just as I had thought, President Maduro has now made his intentions clear.  Just as I had articulated, the Venezuelan leader has given the first signals of how he plans to go about giving teeth to his visions.  Just as I had feared, Guyana now has to confront the sweep of actions that have been announced, as ...