Our Guyana – via one weekend’s news

-the PNC at 60 (Pt 2)

I assumed two positions and approaches to this piece today. Firstly I admitted just a bit of personal journalistic laziness. Secondly I fancied myself a complete stranger to Guyana of September 2017. (As if I’m a first-time visitor from Nicaragua, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe or Sweden.)

Various countries situated in very diverse locations on our planet confront – most likely – similar socio-human, economic and political realties as humans who dwell everywhere. Basic challenges are global and all around – if even in localised versions.

But as senior citizen Allan Fenty of our Republic last weekend, I saw so much of my country’s burdens- “numerous unnecessary”- mirrored in last weekend’s dailies (Saturday/Sunday editions.) Here is a peek into mainly bad negative news with brief comment. The encounters of a new visitor.