Opinion

Book Review by GHK Lall Parliament in the Republic of Guyana is an impressive read, and an outstanding effort put forward by former Speaker of the National Assembly, Mr. Raphael G. C. Trotman in this second edition.  It is a bona fide historical treat for students, citizens, and those who are avid readers of events, personalities, contributors, and luminous figures ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I do not normally use this column to respond to anyone, but today I must. This is because Andre Brandli who lives in Germany, and who is clueless about Guyana, just published the worst type of ad hominem attack against me in Kaieteur News and Stabroek News. Note that these two outlets regularly refuse ...

by GHK Lall Let us not quibble over legal maneuvers of the Government of Guyana.  I refrain from criticizing the lawyer speak involved in the production of that piece of paper, the document evidencing the US$2 billion coverage for Guyana in the event of an oil spill.  I avoid making any comment about this patriotic group that is the national ...

By GHK Lall The PPP Government promised Guyanese that the 2024 budget would have something in it for them.  It did.  But one needs a high-powered magnifying instrument to detect what is there for the poor and the vulnerable, and those who are most in need of a helping hand, in today’s Guyana.  It is a skyrocketing cost-of-living environment that ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus Budget 2024 is now a reality. It was presented to the National Assembly and the nation by the indomitable Dr. Ashni Singh, Senior Minister in the Office of the President, with Responsibility for Finance. It is important to understand that the budget is not only about line-items, measures, or even big-ticket capital expenditures. Put ...

by GHK Lall It took a development that came out of the belly of Guyana’s Opposition to open my eyes, help connect the dots.  Numerous things were wrong, suspect, flawed with the management of this great oil endowment, but somehow, I didn’t strike the nail square.  It has nothing to do with numbers, charts, graphs, or footnotes.  It had everything ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus I read Tony Vieira’s letter calling for a Third Force several times. I give Mr. Vieira full credit for not reducing Guyana’s politics, and especially its voting behavior, to that most predictable of the lazy scholar’s last resort, namely race. That said, Vieira’s call for a Third Force is deeply problematic. Allow me to ...

Attention was on Saturday, 13th January, 2024 drawn to the posting of an utterance titled “Setting the record straight: I was caught off guard in Denis Chabrol’s scheming tactics” in the name of opposition APNU+AFC parliamentarian, Jermaine Figueira on Village Voice. The fact of the matter is as follows: Following the PNCR and Opposition Leader, Mr Aubrey Norton’s explanation for ...

by GHK Lall Who let the dogs out?  Well, Bharrat Jagdeo did.  Ministers of the government have been set free to speak to the press.  They have been given carte blanche to roam across the villages and hamlets of Guyana and to spread the good news of the good works of the PPP in the last three years.  It is ...

By: Dr. Vivian M. Williams, Esq. Like a forgotten unexplored island, the U.S. Espionage Act lay gathering dust for a century. It came into existence in the heat of the first global conflict – World War I. Two decades later, in 1938, a sibling named FARA was born out of the exigencies of World War II. The Foreign Agent Registration ...