Political Analysis

Ferreting out our child molesters

We cannot afford to wait any longer! We must read a riot act against those miscreants who sate their twisted sexual pleasures by molesting our children and leaving ugly physical and mental scars on their young lives.

Get your act together, Anil

There was a distinct tone of gracelessness to the comment by our Attorney General and Justice Minister and maybe even Senior Counsel in waiting, Anil Nandlall in his response to the comment made by Khemraj Ramjattan that the AG could help out the opposition in the drafting of legislation.

Any cow pasture will do

The recent disclosure that OUR 2012 Olympics hopefuls now have no choice but to travel overseas to access proper training facilities and a more competitive warm up environment must surely be one of the least auspicious moments in the political career of Sports Minister  Frank Anthony.

Are you there, Juan?

Could someone shed some light on the goings on with the first Bishop ever to be appointed to a Ministerial position in Guyana!

Oil don’t spoil

The word out there is that now that CGX has announced that the oil rig The Ocean Saratoga has been dispatched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Guyana/Suriname Basin to start drilling for oil, large numbers of ‘better off’ Guyanese are busy googling the various Japanese used car websites, sizing up those high-performance gas guzzlers that they have been denied for so long.

Keeping Mr. Jagdeo in the news

It appears that a certain newspaper has picked up the vibe about the sudden and near complete disappearance of ex President Jagdeo from the news since early December and has decided to do something about it….Except

UG enduring

The University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) has pulled itself up to its full intellectual height and fired a warning shot across the bow of the ship of state, calling for the government to get its act together, to provide them with facilities deserving of a Twenty First Century higher institution of learning.

Time to take the campaign posters down

Whenever will those banners exhorting people to “VOTE” for this party or that party and those pictures of the people who are now the winners and losers at last November’s general elections stop adorning lamp posts and traffic light signal canisters in the city.

Football! Oh, Football!

Here’s a riddle for readers! What do Guyana Football Federation President (on protracted suspension) Colin Klass and ex-President Jagdeo have in common.

Guess Who Came To Dinner

This year’s Annual Police New Year’s Eve Ball was graced with a surprise visitor in the person of Police Commissioner (on leave) Henry Greene.

Cricket in de jungle

One might have thought that the clever thing for President Ramotar to have done was to drop the calumnies of local cricket from his own agenda and get on with the business of fashioning his own agenda.

Wishing away Mayor Green and his Councillors

On Old Year’s Night some of the church-going citizens of Georgetown were reportedly heard praying urgently that on the stroke of midnight a brisk breeze would descend on the capital and that all of the garbage in the city would be caught up, like a rapture and swept away… and they were praying too that Mayor Green and his Councillors would not be spared by the rapture; that they too would become caught up and retired quietly to their respective homes.

The Doctor………..again

It’s well worth the while for those of us who know better to take some time off to make the point to Roger Luncheon that a time will come when scholars of media history will decide to sit down with the mountains of recordings of all of the strange pronouncements that he has unleashed upon this nation and decide that when it comes to propaganda the Doctor might  be incomparable……….and

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