Introduction
This, my closing column for what was a truly eventful, indeed historic year is not about introversion or narcissism but one that was forced by reality. I had really intended to review the annual report of the Demerara Bank Limited which will be holding its annual general meeting tomorrow. I could not anticipate that a public company would refuse to make available a copy of its annual report to be reviewed in the media. In fact, the bank indicated that it would not provide a copy of its annual report until after the general meeting. So much for transparency and good governance in twenty-first century Guyana.

I could have written about the economics and morality of that new buzzword ‘boycott‘ which has been around for millennia. In the late eighteenth century the Society for the …..