Opinion

By GHK Lall Whenever I see actions of the state following certain well-traveled routes, I manage expectations.  Precedent and commonsense tell me that the game is up, goose cooked, and regular menu served.  The official covers are labeled procedures and process. I detect this at work with the Orin Boston murder over there in Dartmouth, where a family tragedy traces ...

BY GHK Lall The two media captions are arresting.  They are “Venezuela’s gov’t, opposition formally agree to unite around border controversy with Guyana” and “Ali maintains precondition for engagement with Harmon” and Stabroek News (September 8)   My thoughts follow. Here the official reaction of the Guyana Government has been quick: “Guyana cannot be used as an altar of sacrifice for ...

by GHK Lall Today I join two events because I believe that they are related.  The first occurred at an opposition rally in Brooklyn, with 2,000 Guyanese attending.  The second was of an almost overnight Presidential announcement of a ‘one-off’ $25,000 cash grant for some 60,000 Guyanese pensioners, and others living under distressed circumstances.  The claim in Brooklyn was of ...

BY GHK LALL As we approach the one-year milepost of His Excellency, President Dr. Mohamed Irfan Ali’s installation in office, I cut through the national forest of political propaganda and PR fluff, and measure the record of the man and leader using six yardsticks.  In no particular order, they are: unity, transparency, accountability, economy, COVID-19 credibility, and floodwater gravity.  The ...

by GHK Lall It was a long-awaited moment in endless time.  An eternity of time that only knew an extended uninterrupted age of harshness and savageness, and of bitterness and anguish, that is of what only man can do to man.  It is of how man can be to his fellow man.  Even those who claim(ed) to be about God ...

by GHK Lall There is this ongoing, sharply escalating, situation between the President and the Police Service Commission.  It has been called a lot of things: defiance and showdown, improper and illegal, among other more searing reactions ad conclusions to where matters stand now.  No matter how I look at what has happened, the wish is that this had taken ...

by GHK Lall The media has been awash with news on the removal of David Patterson as chair of the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC).  Without revisiting what Mr. Patterson did, or who did the same or worse before him, I think it is a step in the right direction, despite the pain that it brings  We must make a ...

by GHK Lall The news came via technology, and it was startling.  Two senior employees of the Guyana Gold Board were terminated.  Given the two officers dismissed, and my own familiarity with both, I wonder what could have been the problem with them that was so grave as to merit dismissal.  More importantly, I will now tender something that Guyana’s ...

by GHK Lall  A scan of SN’s May 19th frontpage turned up two gems.  They confirm how lost our main political groups are, and how distant from reality are the leaders of those groups; their credibility, never above average to begin with, takes yet another dive to the bottom.   Instead of being about a ‘can-do’ attitude’ that powers the ...

by GHK Lall I refer to the article titled, “GHRA says call off IRI electoral reform project, bring in CARICOM instead” (Demerara Waves May 13 https://demerarawaves.com/2021/05/13/ghra-says-call-off-iri-electoral-reform-project-bring-in-caricom-instead/).  I fully agree, and here is why. First, Guyanese electoral reform will not occur without political compromise, as the GHRA noted.  Notwithstanding that, I still believe that both major political groups will search diligently ...