Opinion

by GHK Lall The call of circumstances led me to listen to some more of President Ali’s tirade against former President Ramotar.  It for Mr. Ramotar’s leaning in the direction of renegotiation of the Exxon oil contract.  I wish that a word other than tirade could be employed to describe His Excellency’s presentation, but I cannot, when a diatribe was ...

by GHK Lall A social media clip came to me overnight, compliments of a citizen.  It was His Excellency, President Dr. Irfaan Ali.  After the first line, “Everybody is a specialist now…a former president…” I took a hasty exit when he reached “engineer” in that same sentence.  For what I saw and heard in those 15-20 seconds was not a dear ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus I begin by sending good greetings to the Honorable Chairperson Steven Horsford, and to all the members of the Congressional Black Caucus. My correspondence is warranted because of the incessant efforts by the Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) based in New York, to insert the politics of Guyana into the dynamic of American ...

by GHK Lall Poor Bobby.  So, Mr. Gopinath Gossai (Bobby G) of the Ministry of Natural Resources is the chosen one to carry the burden of falling down on the job in this unending US$214 million Exxon audit mystery.  Now Bobby G is named to be associated with notoriety, one specially selected by his own to go down in infamy.  ...

by GHK Lall I note in the media that Opposition MP, Mr. David Patterson, has written to the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to investigate the GY$865 million contract award for a pump station. His focus is what violates rules and procedures, what besmirches the sense of fair play in reasonable men.  My thoughts follow. Every Guyanese is entitled to work; ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud (Randy), Professor Emeritus Cornelia, West Coast Demerara. Guyana. This is the place where on hot tropical nights you touch the moon with your bare indentured, slave descended hands, watch the shooting stars with your own brown eyes, where you may look deep into the night, and now and again, well into the crimson platform of dawn. ...

October 3, 2023 In 1897, Venezuela and Great Britain concluded an agreement- the Treaty of Washington which they agreed to submit the dispute regarding the location of their land boundary to binding arbitration before a tribunal of eminent jurists including the heads of the judiciary of the United States and Great Britain. The parties – Britain and Venezuela – agreed in ...

by Sir Shridath Ramphal 124 years ago, on an autumn morning in Paris, some of the world’s most distinguished jurists listened to a description of the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. It was the Award of the Arbitral Tribunal set up under the Treaty of Washington to find a ‘full, perfect and final settlement’ of the dispute over the ...

by GHK Lall The PNC went to Washington, DC, recently.  It should have stayed put, and enjoyed the incinerating heat of Guyana.  The PNC team was not James Stewart’s Mr. Smith goes to Washington, but a damp squib that fizzled out.   What the PNC team did in Washington was to roast itself alive, and over a slow, public fire ...

By Dr. Randolph Persaud, Professor Emeritus The CGID event in Washington DC failed to achieve even their most minimal objectives. They expected the Americans to issue a statement condemning the PPPC administration, but none came. No one was interested. What is worse, is that only days before the September 27-28 event, it was reported that the Congressional Black Caucus, “had ...