Opinion

by GHK Lall A cautionary note is in order as I share on traffic today. All laws and rules are dumped into the garbage can. Well, that is precisely what most Guyanese have done with them. Frequently, I am ready to say all Guyanese, so prevalent, so every day, are the departures from the rules, dismissals of them, and making ...

by GHK Lall I would sum up COP27 in two words. Promises, promises, promises. And dud, dud, dud. Most of those 200 plus should have done the world a favor, and stayed home. Nothing material comes out of these talkfests, so why have them? I give Gaston Browne of Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados’s Mia Mottley a pass for sheer ...

by GHK Lall Her Excellency, Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch spoke of inclusion and sustainability for all Guyanese recently (Demerara Waves, November 9).  It was the American Ambassador, and not I.  It is not the first time, nor the second, that Her Excellency has seen it fit to speak to inclusion in Guyana.  It is either that she doesn’t know what ...

by GHK Lall I like to think that there are some things that we can actually decide for ourselves, and then do for ourselves.  Clearly, my outlook is either the poorest form of flattery, or the worst kind of self-deception.  The British High Commissioner to Guyana took that away from us, and in so doing exposed us for who, how, ...

By GHK Lall Some things are so beyond the pale that they can never be acceptable.  What Exxon’s Country Head stated at Leonora about the “right government” (KN November 9) is off the wall and out of bounds.  Mr. Routledge is not only out of line; I will make the case that he is out of his mind.  He is ...

By GHK Lall I read in SN that “48% poverty rate reflects 2019 figures -Finance Minister”.  Thanks, Dr. Minister for the clarification; and, as expected, the PPP Government came out swinging in response to that eyepopping World Bank report.  These are my positions. First, since the World Bank figures on poverty are from 2019 (as updated), there can only be ...

BY GHK Lall The news is awash with appeals and push from His Excellency, President Ali to make his 1000-man initiative gather some momentum, become a success.  To give the President his due, I think that there are embedded noble objectives in that the uplift of men and younger males in Guyana are the intended beneficiaries.  I salute the President ...

by GHK Lall It takes a special talent, an extraordinary person, for anyone located anywhere in the world to steal the thunder of new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.  On the history making day of Tuesday, October 25th, one of not the Russian Revolution, but of an English one, a Guyanese all the way over by the Himalayas succeeded in ...

By GHK Lall British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, is now history.  Her 6-week tenure was sad, bad, and mad history.  I say that all the talk of U-turn fades into insignificance by how she overturned herself, and ended up being thrown out on her head.  As always, I look at developments elsewhere, and ask myself: why not here?  Why don’t ...

by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food. It is grown, harvested, processed, packaged, transported, distributed, traded, bought, prepared and then… thrown out. Each year, approximately 14 percent of the food we produce is lost between when it is harvested and before it reaches the shops. A further 17 percent of our food ends up being wasted by ...