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  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, March 20, 2009 | 0 Comments


    On street-people – and `homes’

    -And my sorrow for promoters
    Here is one of my more brief pieces. It makes a simple pointed observation: In six decades …

  • Troubled thoughts on calypso

    By Allan Fenty | Monday, March 16, 2009 | 6 Comments


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    Sparrow, King Konris – and a Minister’s Concern

    Believe me, I love Caribbean Calypso dearly. I mean sweet, simple, witty, cleverly-constructed and arranged Kaiso – whether …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment


    Thoughts on Guyana’s Diaspora

    -We Gave The World…

    “Di-as-pora”—— Greek for “scattering of seeds?” Referring to “the movement of any population sharing common identity.” So that’s how …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, February 20, 2009 | 2 Comments


    Rebellion, Republicanism, and yes, Mashramani
    Black History? African Heritage?
    I was in my mid-twenties, a school teacher and reasonably conscious of our local politics when Forbes Burnham …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, February 6, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Functional respect for an office
    On Presidents….And Other Personalities
    By Allan Fenty
    I feel entitled to a brief post-birthday waffle today. Any post-forty birth anniversary in our land …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Thursday, December 25, 2008 | 0 Comments


    A Guyanese Creole Christmas – and Jim Jones in the assembly

    What the Dickens! “Frankly Speaking” on a day other than Friday?
    Well, you know …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, December 12, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Cheddi Jagan in jail
    - And Christmas with the PNC
    Now what on earth would prompt me to hark back to such an issue and time as …

  •  Frankly Speaking …

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, December 5, 2008 | 0 Comments


    ‘Not Guilty’, but not innocent
    Criminal connections?
    I’ll leave this for a significant while after today’s offering. However, recent successes by the Guyana Police Force, both in …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 31, 2008 | 0 Comments


    -From the Labour Party to FITUG
    - and ‘Burning Spear” In The White House?
    Just felt that I had to return to this vexed issue of just …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 17, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Welcome, Ambassador Jones
    A warm sincere welcome to you Mister Ambassador representing the most-talked-about nation in the world, the United States of America (USA).
    Welcome to our …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Corruption – and Cabinet changes
    - Perception usually prevails
    Even as I’ll eschew classic definitions of the term, I felt an urge to offer my “three-cents” …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 19, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Some significant national disagreements
    -And from Carifesta 10 to Mashramani 2009
    You’re Guyanese to the core. You might even consider yourself Patriot, Nationalist; what’s more you shunned …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, September 5, 2008 | 0 Comments


    ‘Somebody make some noise!!’
    Basics about criminal networks
    Past sixty I am, but very young at heart. (I don’t mean physically.) However, perhaps, just perhaps prematurely, increasingly, …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Welcome Caribbean, to Celegacy
    To the usual, to the different
    “Celegacy?” What’s that? By now, the once well-kept secret ought to be out. I have a new …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, August 8, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Black Olympics, brown Carifesta
    -and a touch of Forbes Burnham
    By A.A. Fenty
    The 2008 Beijing Olympics is on. These Games properly styled the games of the twenty-ninth …

  • Frankly Speaking

    By Allan Fenty | Friday, August 1, 2008 | 0 Comments


    Some Afro-Guyanese considerations
    Achievement, identity, then what?
    On this the 170th Anniversary of the Full-Freedom Emancipation (1838) of African slaves in the Guiana colony, please do …

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