Opinion

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 ...

by GHK Lall Because of the time of year, I do my best to be about peace and goodwill to all men.  Though many may find this hard to swallow, even at my sharpest, there are those two strains embedded.  Indeed, it is despite how things are, the way men with power have transformed for the worse, and how the ...

by GHK Lall I am disappointed at my brother, His Worship, Pandit Ubraj Narine, Mayor of Georgetown.  His choice of subjects, and the way he went about his delivery left much to be desired.  My position on discriminatory practices by the PPP Government is well-known, needs no reintroduction, speaks its own volumes.  Relative to Mayor Narine, his frontal assault, through ...

by GHK Lall I note with interest the development where Guyana has joined regional information sharing networks to facilitate going after financial criminals (Demerara Waves, December 11, 2022). On the face of it, this is good for Guyana, with many possible pluses. On the other hand, for those familiar with the real Guyana, the one below the surface glitter, this ...

By GHK Lall America is back in Venezuela.  Well, Chevron has been officially cleared to setup shop across the border to make public what was happening on the sly.  After all these years, I am still trying to put my finger on the pulse of America, though I had anticipated this, and said so.  It was all for democracy here, ...