Opinion

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall Talk swirls in heady intoxication about the oil resting placidly in its offshore berth.  Meanwhile, political calculations center on social and environmental algorithms continually redesigned and re-calibrated to gain a winning hand.  While the race is to get a controlling position near that same oil, it is also about 2020, too. The first ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall It mistakenly thought that the local lunatic fringe was on the way out at the close of the last elections, and that it would settle into a dignified death.  Well, circumstances have conspired to prove me wrong in both old and developing theaters.  And theaters they are. There is a whole crowd of ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall Politics, crime, and violence in Guyana: is there a nexus?  Is there a history?  Is this the reality?  These are sure to be provocative, even unwanted, questions.  They still must be asked and explored. It has been said that choke-and-rob banditry had its origins in the stormy strife-political, racial, social-of the pre-Independence period, ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall That live grenade endangering the lives of people at Kaieteur News prompts these two questions: Can democracy, the 21st century, and Guyanese politics and standards coexist?  Coexist constructively and peaceably and progress to a firm lasting footing? It was a live grenade with the potential for mayhem and unthinkable maiming.  If it had ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall Sovereign Wealth Fund: it has a nice sounding comforting ring to it.  It should be noticed right away that this is not a secret Swiss fund, or concealed offshore business, but a Sovereign fund.  It is one that is for the 29people, housing the nation’s deposits, harnessing its future.  It is a fund ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall It is a strange world of futures, swaps, hedges, currencies, spot prices, tankers, and an array of terms that is a language of its own, and alien to the layman.  It is also a world of stupendous booms, and the bottom falling out of once soaring prices, thus bringing nations to their knees. ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall The United States went from being at one time, and for a long time, the largest exporter of oil in the world, to a net exporter.  From the 1970s forward it, along with large parts of the rest of the world, was held hostage through embargoes, supply squeezes, geopolitical postures, foreign policy contentiousness, ...

Eye on the Issues by GHK Lall All Guyana waits with a tingling.  There is a stirring, if not a surge of anticipation; of what can be, of a possible way up and out, of a better and brighter way ahead.  This is what the discovery of oil brings from beyond the horizon and below the sea to right in ...

GHK Lall’s Eye on the Issues All law-abiding citizens should applaud Commissioner of Police (ag), Mr. David Ramnarine’s recent call on ranks to stop harassing the public or face the consequences.  Even as I commend this public posture of the CoP (ag), I must wonder whether this latest warning will not (like others before) fall on deaf ears.  To emphasize this ...

Seeing a clipping  of an  accusation   of  corruption  and  crookery  against  me   and a  woman colleague  has kept me from expressing  any opinion  on the several issues of public  morality in Guyana. I  know that I am not   perfect. but feel we should all aim at that  and be open to scrutiny  so as to qualify for public  roles. Not ...