Frankly Speaking

-Time to give up? To lose hope? Co-incidentally, the sentiments expressed through today’s lead caption were first published in this column, in similar style, nine years ago.

– another Caricom week, with Brazil Recall that quite early on in the life of the APNU-AFC tenure there was talk of a ministerial/senior public service code-of-conduct.

It’s the early to mid-1900s. The slaves had left the plantations.

-Miss Guyana World: The Wright choice! A few readers took time to mention that they appreciated last Friday’s shorter format; I’ll try again today.

“… For the purpose of trafficking” Today I ask my editor for one of those “time-outs.”

Beginning next Friday I’ll do my very best to avoid the basic issues embedded in today’s two topics.

Compelled to return briefly to my lead issue above, I remind that I wrote in part last Friday: “From submersibles in the North-West District to light aeroplanes to sawmills to arranging US visas, which type of individual(s) is/are most “qualified” to manage such enterprise?” 

I won’t ever use the cliché “Happy Independence Day…” Rather, I normally agree with the annual observance as there is always much more needed for celebration.

– usages – and “mis-usages” Both old First World countries and newer emerging Third World States – especially the latter – proudly proclaim national mottoes.

Trump supporters: ‘Lock her up!’ Two setting-the-scene, background points relevant to my lead issue: (1) I myself was a teacher in the public school system for eleven years before editing and producing educational supplementary readers for the Ministry of Education long before current efforts.

Our head of state seems to prefer visits to country-wide communities over any type of full-fledged press conference.

Bartica boys, backdams and banks Did Rasul ever hear or read about Raleigh?

A sufficiently–prominent Guyanese personality provoked my poor-man senses when he claimed that there is now some new tax on dray-carts, meaning dray-cart drivers/owners.

Greetings to all on this Holiest of Christian Days. I intend to be briefly repetitive.

bravado and big-time thieves Why – as current cost-of-living, quality of life, bread and butter issues “consume” the Guyanese Citizen – am I fast forwarding to some Jubilee general election three years away?

For a long time I’ve wanted to both rebuke and defend (new) government ministers with respect to their attitudes to (their) voters.

-the Radio set and water tank and self-reliance Gosh! Bear with me as I feel compelled to return to the issues of SARU and stolen state assets addressed herein last Friday.

Are they “executive criminals” or “criminal executives?” You choose any appropriate description for those greedy selfish persons who, once elected or catapulted into high public office, use governmental corridors of power to illegally secure wealth from the public purse, exclusively for their inner circle of relatives, friends, cronies and comrades.

I’m supposed to be the “outside” son of a late “Ole Police” Joe Fenty.

Even if out of my depth, I’m trying to wax provocative today on two social issues, local and worldwide.