By GHK Lall I detect that the tensions between the United States and China is so thick that it would need a sledgehammer to crack.  The latest arising from these two standing global superpowers (one now established, no longer emerging) is that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi didn’t help matters: no easing, only intensifying.  ...

by GHK Lall Most would agree that the Guyana Energy Conference started off on the wrong foot.  In caustic terms: the independent press is not welcome; the free press should not bother to put in an appearance.  And when the door is opened, then members of the press, those known characters that trouble the PPP Government, and are feared by ...

by GHK Lall Thanks Minister of Natural Resources, Mr. Vickram Bharrat (Minister) for disclosing that the long overdue, much-anticipated, audit report of Exxon’s US$7.3B in expenses is on tap for March.  That is, March 2023.  What was initially scheduled for September 2022, then December of last year, is now estimated to be March.  I use ‘estimated’ since intervening circumstances could ...

by Wesley Gibbings Really? Prof. couldn’t wait till the music subsided and the emotions ebbed at the estuary of a season that took so long to arrive? Instead, midstream Caroni (whew, not Essequibo!) – between the contestations of pan, and the loud, often cacophonous proclamations of force-ripe griots, and the sharpening of the mas’ makers’ tools – was where he ...

by GHK Lall Tyre Nichols is dead, dead, dead, couldn’t be deader.  From, “I can’t breathe” in Minnesota there is this progress to “I’m just trying to go home….” in Memphis, Tennessee.  Now he goes home in a casket, and not on his own feet, but feet first.  One more fallen, one more statistic, one more poignant memory compiled, but ...

by GHK Lall The PPP Government and leadership can either be congratulated or condemned for its relentless commitment, its premediated visions, to target African Guyanese communities, interests, ways of life, and then systemically erode all three.  The latest involves cooperatives and idle lands (Demerara Waves, January 23), as presented by the Hon. Minister of Labor.  On the one hand, I ...

by GHK Lall The national budget for 2023 is now public.  At GY$781.89 billion, it is a huge 41 percent plus increase over 2022.  As written last year, and putout again last week in the media, my interest and priority were and remain what will be in it for ordinary Guyana.  That is, those citizens grappling and losing on each ...

by GHK Lall Peru is in turmoil.  Across the ocean, Pakistan is unsettled.  Around those parts, Sri Lanka has settled down to a phony peace.  Right next door, there is Brazil, and it is rocking.  Even fortress America has its work cut out for it.  The common thread is that the people are not taking what came out of the ...

by GHK Lall Huge sections of the population watched, read, listened, and absorbed what has unfolded in Mocha.  Today, I make no point about passions, prejudices, or politics.  I am thinking of two things; one is business oriented, while the other has to be the worst issue tabled at this time; I raise with trepidation, with few caring.  I take ...

by GHK Lall I always had the eerie feeling that Hon. Minister Robeson Benn is American; or at least a broad streak of American in him.  I received confirmation in spades the other day when I learned that Minister Benn refused an umbrella and braved the rain.  Bareheaded, too.  Now, in my book, that is leading by example.  I have ...