Frankly Speaking

This is one of those Fridays I wanted for my time-out brevity.

In the USA, where thousands of my countrymen reside, former Presidents are still addressed as “President.”

I know that I have had cause to express my curious appreciation of those columnists and dedicated letter writers – based in Georgetown and overseas – who, virtually, daily, lambaste Bharrat Jagdeo, his heirs and wannabes, most relentlessly with a view to regime change.

I tire truly of the world’s and Guyana’s sordid goings-on. These days I often wonder whether I could have been a media reporter required to write those daily new-stories of tragedy and misery – murder, other crimes, assaults, arson, accidents, corruption, etcetera.

If even regarded by some as ramblings or waffle, I return to my lead issues with pointed brevity.

I can claim to be no political scientist nor analyst. I am a layman of some one-time Party affiliation and experience in Public Relations during three major elections campaigns.

Within a five–day period thousands of us interested enough were able to be treated to varied “explosions of sound” emanating from the PNC/APNU/Parliamentary Opposition Leader, retired Army Brigadier, David Granger.

– The Politics of the Seventh Parliament In these Op-Ed pieces one is given to (hopefully) well-thought out analyses and conclusions, strongly-held, truth-and-fact views, sometimes preachy “lectures” and heavily-referenced or endorsed dissertations.

Two most brief lecturettes today as senior years muse on values and virtues lost, providing origins and causes for our socio-national decline.

Your might detect, rather easily, that I tend to leave some of the more topical issues to those commentators eminently qualified to analyse and share opinions on the numerous matters of “national significance”.

-Our 2014 “Summer” has arrived   These brief notes on my lead subject are occasioned by both my involvement in and with a Non- Government, Civil Society Public Policy Group and two recent letters to the Press.

I actually missed the news item on Gecom and campaign funding which one friend mentioned.

Hello friends, today’s lecturette is both brief and also my personal search for assistance with regard to the issue raised in the caption.

Another Friday of my trying to be more light-hearted than intense or profound.

A few columns ago I took you all to GUYISLE, that independent state off the five Guianas Shield.

Yes, my regular readers would discern whenever I attempt to be escapist.

The Law and Karan’s Nose So the world is now a Global Village?

  -Still coming: Inside this ministryThe Guyana Constitution, under the provisions which “guarantee” our Rights and Freedoms, permits, even protects citizens wishing to engage in peaceful public protests and demonstrations against the widest possible range of issues which those citizens deem unjust or somehow against personal, community, workplace or national well–being.

Ezekiel, Farrakhan, Flight 370 – and Wheels A little less than two years ago I dared to venture out of my depth to explore the lead topic indicated above.

Seven Self-Employed Bandits, Crime as “Employment” Not with an actual “heavy heart” but with some deliberation, I restrained myself from personal commentary on yesterday’s Labour Day or on Monday’s Arrival Day.