A. A. Fenty

Former GDF officers can’t `humiliate’ themselves I willingly admit, concede that for years I’ve been addicted to the Cable Television Channels such as the BBC, Al Jazeera, Fox News and CNN – among others.

Concerning honor and legacy Despite my captioned issues today being appropriate for in depth attention, appreciate my relative brevity.

-The Olympics, me and Guyana Let’s declare the whole of August “Emancipation Month” for this column of twenty-eight years.

An Opposition supports the government! Hello readers: after you’ve taken in other columns, commentaries, and voluminous letters offering serious, scientific dissertations and analyses, I herein invite you – especially the over-sixties who will hopefully interest their youth (Dot.com)

Hardly likely I’ll ever live to see… Because I’ve been at this repeatedly over past years, I must be brief, succinct.

What new protest(s) today? Remember always – I hardly make you forget – that this is the working class layman’s perspective of things.

Between March and August last year folks supporting the sanctimonious Brigadier-President utilized every subterfuge to execute elections thievery.

– Current Capital City, new town, new bridge Very mistakenly, when I received my two shots of the Sputnik V coronavirus disease (COVID) vaccines weeks ago, I thought that it had the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Final farewell to a diligent professional Sorry to personalise this offering very briefly but over the past week a sudden personal loss proved a major mental distraction for me.

You realise that if two bandits rob and kill your grandmother in her bedroom one night, two feet in front of you, and you escape to inform the police, the two murderers charged become “suspects”.

Parents burying their children As one’s life on earth – even, yes even in big beautiful blighted Guyana – passes seventy and eighty, one makes time to reflect, wonder, lament and hope.

The tragedy and politics of floods My captioned three-part miscellany – or potpourri  – will be as brief as they are diverse today.

Our police travails – real and fake (?) My own vital formative years – six to twenty-one – were spent in the George-town ward of Alberttown.

– Poor me, I’ll never see… In the past two columns I wondered whether the People’s National Congress (PNC) leader David Arthur Ganger was “fully retired”.

Costly blunders, avoidable embarrassments Regarding my lead caption and issue(s), I have to be extremely cautious lest I upset a few readers.

– No Guyanese illegals at the Southern Border? Two introductory points upfront: since numerous analysts, commentators and editorial writers will assess the PPP government’s performance after one year at the end of July, I offer cursory comments rights now – after nine months; and secondly, as I frequently do, I concede that I’m not capable of the more scientific “political analyses”.

– Vintage Kaiso fuh so on yuh radio… Endure or enjoy today’s lecturette, ramblings, waffle.

Wanton deliberate murder, then manslaughter Hello Readers all, welcome to today’s miscellany; my potpourri of mostly practical “issues of national significance.”

Readers – and my Editor – could recognize a relative “time-out” with this offering today.

-Pandemic humour … I believe that it’s the United Nations Organisation – the UN – which determines how far out or how much of a sea or ocean belongs to some country that is contiguous to that mighty body of water.