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Do you relate to Mashramani?
I’d guess that, at the minimum, half of our population is aware of the origins and reasons for the annual festival that is Mashramani.
Protect the People’s Money
Don’t Plunder the Public PurseToday’s offering, in one sense, may be considered as a tribute, of sorts, to the Kaieteur News, the other acknowledged private “independent” newspaper in this country.
Nyron at nineteen
After proudly chalking up eighteen (18) years of this column, non-stop, last Friday, I’m taking one of those “time-outs” to be most brief today.
My Favourite Moral Dilemma
And Purely Personal, After 18 yearsIronically, I’ll understand if readers turn to something else after just a minute or two of glancing at this.
Frankly Speaking
This is, or should be, serious business.
Elections (mischief) cometh
-Some response from GAWU Because I agree with Eric Phillips – ACDA official, one-time consultant in South Africa (How did that go?), Pan Africanist, ABC Founder, White House scholar - I quote him: “It is that time of pre-elections realities when the true feelings .
The garbage of life
I give thanks for being allowed to be alive with you in these first weeks of a new calendar year 2011, according to how we in this portion of the planet keep count of time.
Still a Guyana to love
- our president, my prognosticationsI suppose this will forever be my own patriotic position: The land of my birth, where I’ve decided to live all my years (left) – Guyana – will always be a land to love – despite… Despite and notwithstanding the bungling by its political managers which threaten to reduce it (further) to a socioeconomic mess and into an untidy, health-challenged home and even though I harbor strong doubts about them … about us … from time to time, I can’t see our Guyanese people allowing any professional political pretenders .
Frankly Speaking: A better Christmas then? Now?
You’re traditional.
Don’t die for Christmas
-Sealandia’s Pots and KettlesAgain eschewing the more profound, the cerebral and analytical, I caution instead those citizens willing to be reasonable, or conservative, for this “Season”.
What are we to believe (Ian)?
-A white Christmas – Forever?-Oh, Thanks President Santa…Perhaps I can justify using this “season” of a rather universal virtually-invasive Christian celebratory festival, to cogitate upon Ian Mc Donald’s last Sunday Stabroek column.
Working-class Christmas gifts
-My government can respond, I’m sureMy “working-class” here refers to the thousands of Guyanese actually holding down some type of employment in the country’s public or private sector.
Frankly Speaking…Domestic Violence, what Church?
-Bishop “Brev” – and a cane-cutter’s thoughtsThe primary objective herein today is to express my conditional support for the latest governmental initiative to confront, lessen or eliminate gender-based abuse, domestic violence.
Frankly Speaking…From the boardroom to Basdeo’s bedroom
-85,000 Hindus, Christians for Mash 2011Just last Friday I had opined that the typical working-class Guyanese citizen cares little about (macro) economic issues or the more sophisticated even if necessary, questions of fiscal management – or our foreign policy.
Frankly Speaking:The Station in the Village
On Traffic – And Politicians at SportAdmittedly, these are, in the main, recycled thoughts from an earlier column on the issues published four years ago.