Shaun Michael Samaroo

Barack Obama won the heart of America with his clear articulation of social values.

Guyanese in New York and Ontario, struck with the force of Hurricane Sandy’s winds this week, feel a renewed awareness of how blessed is their homeland.

Despite that cynical gloom that shrouds this nation in languid apathy, one detects a wonderful sense of aliveness, of energy and a zest for life among Guyanese.

V. S. Naipaul’s insight, in identifying a sort of unconsciousness, a lack of feeling and seeing, in his native Trinidad and Tobago and India, comes home with force upon landing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

How corrupt is the soul of our nation? When our leaders resort to the unethical behaviour of buying pirated textbooks for our school children to be educated, we know our nation’s soul lies in a moral mess.

– designing the Guyana Dream We face two possible kinds of future.

Social Media worldwide buzzes with talk, pictures and videos of a new hangout in Georgetown, dubbed ‘the People’s Parliament’, taking shape at Brickdam and High Street, just outside the National Assembly.

Free knowledge and training on the Internet makes it so easy for a person today to become the best in the world.

E. R. Braithwaite’s book, ‘To Sir With Love’, portrays a scene where a character stands in a  contemplative mood.

We wake up every morning to build, to make something useful and beneficial of this gift of life, in a sunny, fertile land.

Burning a school where 850 of our children receive the golden gift of education is a cruel act.

Our nation watches astonished and in absolute consternation as the Linden crisis unfolds.

Prime Minister Sam Hinds said last week in Parliament that violence pervades this society.

Central Government in this country so pervades every nook and cranny of our society, that we see big government as the answer to our problems.

Central Government in this country so pervades every nook and cranny of our society, that we see big government as the answer to our problems.

Given the serious challenges facing this nation in this second decade of the 21st century, we must focus on one major goal to transform how the next generation lives.

One conversation Guyanese living overseas often indulge in is why they migrated, why they live away from their homeland.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee penned a letter to the press underlining the ruling party’s pugilistic stance towards newspapers.

Though we despair at the sorry state of our nation in these early years of the 21st century, we see quite a few voices of conscience striving to make a difference in this society.

Solving the two crucial challenges that confront our nation, in the ethnic insecurity showing up in our politics, and pervasive, endemic corruption, calls for an ethical, independent, professional and investigative national media industry.