Mosa Telford

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When wounds bleed

Since 2020 when the mutilated bodies of Isaiah and Joel Henry were found, their relatives have been standing on a bridge over troubled waters.

The Maafa today

October 12 is African Holocaust Day or Maafa Day. Maafa is a Kiswahili word meaning great disaster or tragedy.

Speak up

Last Monday, I was in Kitty when I observed a Kitty-Campbellville minibus, already overloaded, pick up three more passengers who were too willing to join the disaster-on-wheels waiting to happen.

The time is now

Perhaps we are tired of the accounts of Guyanese women who have been murdered by the hands of the men they loved.

Criminal influence

A story appeared in the news this week that a social media personality is being accused of drugging and raping a young man.

The clatter of shackles

The theme for ACDA’s Emancipation Festival 2022 was “Celebrating the enduring African spirit through cultural expression” and the sub-theme is “Realizing the Guyanese dream through community economic empowerment.”

The cost of docility

There was a motion by the Opposition to discuss the rising cost of living, but the Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir withdrew the motion.

Seven bullets

Murdered young men in Guyana are often condemned in death. Killed without a trial, conviction, or a sentence for death, like a public stoning, where even after livor mortis has begun, the stones continue to be thrown.

Outside with the ‘Dunce Thugs’

There was pandemonium at the National Park last Saturday morning. The ‘Baderation’ concert was one of the events hosted by Hits and Jams Entertainment during our 56th Independence celebrations.

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