Guyanese would probably think of better things to do than read the newspapers today. For those who choose to read this article, please accept my best wishes for a Happy Christmas. For other readers of Stabroek News, and all Guyanese, I wish you also Happy Christmas. Stabroek News has generously published the articles that I began to write for my blog, Conversation Tree (conversationtree.gy), and still do. I had begun writing for the Mirror several years before, taking over Mrs. Janet Jagan’s page 3 after she passed. But I was later relegated to the second to last page, amidst the sports news, after Mr. Donald Ramotar, campaigning for the PPP’s nomination, like me, took over page 3. Of course, I was not notified and thought that the Mirror had stopped publishing me. It was only upon inquiry I was notified of my ‘demotion.’ Unusually, Stabroek News occasionally ran a news story on my Mirror articles. After the PPP and I fell out in 2012, I began the blog and SN began to publish the articles I wrote for the blog. At this time of giving thanks, which marks approximately ten years of publication, which I thankfully acknowledge I wish its Editor in Chief, its editors, its staff in general and its Sunday Editor and staff in particular a Happy Christmas.
