Cheddi’s honest, patriotic capitalists

— and why the world becomes “American”

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My brevity today indicates that this offering is one of my “time-out productions.”

However, as I read, weekly, of the huge cocaine busts which now irrevocably taints my Guyana as some “Cocaine transshipment/trafficking point,” thoughts of the stories of some of our legendary business families cross my mind. And reflections of Cheddi Jagan’s 1993 call to our “capitalists” …..




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