A. A. Fenty

Brief thoughts on Christmas Day By A. A. Fenty So we have ourselves reminded of the well-known “reason for the season”:  the birth, reportedly, of the Christ Child to a rather mis-matched couple – matured carpenter Joseph and Virgin Teenager, Mary.

-and the more I see of people… Admittedly, this brief Christmas Day offering is garnered, in the main, from other folks’ research, presentations and, perhaps, conclusions.

Being fast in the Spy Shop “Spyglass go sell in Grenada Everyone wan spy dey neighba-peeping Everyone wan spy one-anodda-peeping” (Everybody Peeping – Super P-2002)A A Fenty at the Spy ShopJust a few lines from a popular soca song of a few years ago.

Frankly Speaking The PPP and the Army Compliments of my daughters, I’ve just completed another vacation in the USA.

Struggling with my pride and patriotism As one born within these Guyana borders who decided to let family go (most reluctantly) and live all my life here where I even have the outline of my own final farewell service to take place in Georgetown, I know I have a right to criticize and lament what my only native land has become.

With which sport would the nation associate our still-young President Bharrat Jagdeo?

What the jackass thinks Really because they’re black? I am a male donkey.

Sweet songs, sour calypso (?) Frankly Speaking Yes, I’m taking one of those necessary days off from consideration of our four major, national front-page miseries – murders, narcotics-crimes, traffic accidents and fires.

-Or guilty by association? Frankly Speaking Just a (seemingly) trivial query from me to you about those who can impact upon our daily lives.

-and, `locking up’ their own Frankly Speaking Believe me, these are simple – sometimes simplistic – thoughts on the issues, the implications and the contradictions, inherent in the titles mentioned in the main caption above.

-One Grenadian’s observation, 200 killed? Mr. Henry Greene is Guyana’s Commissioner of Police.

Popular church, same attitudes-What security? Me!? A missionary? In Nigeria?

Frankly Speaking          by A.A. Fenty– And thieving in the Kleptocracy Yes, my own July-August holidays laziness kicks in here today, but with a purpose.

A resolution and a daughter’s biography It’s another birth anniversary for Slinger  – “The Mighty Sparrow” – Francisco today.

Locking up their own-And Guyanese in Barbados – legally Just another fleeting look at another unfortunate occurrence and its consequence for our national comfort.

-Neither Pa nor Parent Although I am not too enthusiastic about these special singular one-shot “days”, I can have no difficulty with the celebration of the responsibility and joys of fatherhood.

-Guyana as a Colony? Definitely one of my shorter offerings today.

Enforcement and prosecution   The Hustle, the “Runnings” It was just six months ago that I wrote about an issue I described as the “Enforce-ment hustle”.

The President – and those who would be– some selective National Awards Hello.

‘I’m a single-parent (mom)’From St. Mary to Marcie And Minister ManickchandJust five days ago we joined the Americans and the world in observing or celebrating Mother’s Day.