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By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment
Struggling with my pride and patriotism
As one born within these Guyana borders who decided to let family go (most reluctantly) and live all my life …
By Allan Fenty | Saturday, September 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
With which sport would the nation associate our still-young President Bharrat Jagdeo?
Cricket? (Shiv Chanderpaul and Guyana cricket Board chairman Chet Singh are his fellow-villagers!).
Football? (He …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 25, 2009 | 0 Comments
What the jackass thinks
Really because they’re black?
I am a male donkey. That makes me a jackass from Guyana. Or put another way, I’m a Guyanese …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 18, 2009 | 0 Comments
Sweet songs, sour calypso (?)
Frankly Speaking
Yes, I’m taking one of those necessary days off from consideration of our four major, national front-page miseries – murders, …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
-Or guilty by association?
Frankly Speaking
Just a (seemingly) trivial query from me to you about those who can impact upon our daily lives. Or our daily …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 4, 2009 | 0 Comments
-and, `locking up’ their own
Frankly Speaking
Believe me, these are simple – sometimes simplistic – thoughts on the issues, the implications and the contradictions, inherent in …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
-One Grenadian’s observation, 200 killed?
Mr. Henry Greene is Guyana’s Commissioner of Police. He has qualified to practise law as an attorney but opted to remain …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
Popular church, same attitudes
-What security? Me!? A missionary? In Nigeria?
I am moved to return to one of my old themes: that in the ages-long Christian …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, July 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Frankly Speaking by A.A. Fenty
- And thieving in the Kleptocracy
Yes, my own July-August holidays laziness kicks in here today, but with a purpose. I’m …
By Allan Fenty | Thursday, July 9, 2009 | 3 Comments
A resolution and a daughter’s biography
It’s another birth anniversary for Slinger – “The Mighty Sparrow” – Francisco today.
The Mighty Sparrow
Does anyone call him “Slinger” or …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, June 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
Locking up their own
-And Guyanese in Barbados – legally
Just another fleeting look at another unfortunate occurrence and its consequence for our national comfort.
Of course, this …
By Allan Fenty | Saturday, June 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
-Neither Pa nor Parent
Although I am not too enthusiastic about these special singular one-shot “days”, I can have no difficulty with the celebration of the …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, June 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
-Guyana as a Colony?
Definitely one of my shorter offerings today. Triggered by remarks by Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine on the occasion of the twenty-ninth assassination anniversary …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, June 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
Enforcement and prosecution
The Hustle, the “Runnings”
It was just six months ago that I wrote about an issue I described as the “Enforce-ment hustle”. I am …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, May 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
The President – and those who would be
- some selective National Awards
Hello. Regard today’s offerings as Fenty’s Ramblings on local politics, now becoming less and …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
‘I’m a single-parent (mom)’
From St. Mary to Marcie
And Minister Manickchand
Just five days ago we joined the Americans and the world in observing or celebrating Mother’s …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, May 1, 2009 | 0 Comments
Capitalism –for and against workers
…So, how “polarised” are we?
Even as I suspect that my typical economically–challenged working class employees, have little time to consider intellectually/analytically, …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, April 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
- and some Americana-Guyana
Look, let me declare a few verifiable facts and opinions of a personal nature. (For those readers interested.) And it also has …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, April 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
- Fyffe’s poor – on their own
It’s that time of year again. (According to the Western – and especially Christian Calendar of course.) The Christian …
By Allan Fenty | Friday, April 3, 2009 | 0 Comments
Thieves at the top
- But why no response to Thomas and Ram?
- And my final farewell
One of my much shorter offerings today. Amidst the all-pervasive …
