Think on That

Do most Guyanese have a problem with gay people? Or is it the sex that bothers them and more particularly the sex gay men engage in?

‘Blow,’ which is a Guyanese term for infidelity, has been trending in recent weeks.

Did they assume that I was in danger of losing my way?

“Life is hard.” “I have no idea what’s going on.” “I am hoping to get out of it.”

Is a visa to England, Canada or the United States a golden ticket to paradise?

A plot to assassinate the president? While there will always be those who disapprove of His Excellency, Brigadier (rtd) David Arthur Granger, such an allegation was disquieting.

A meeting was planned to accommodate consultations on the proposed Value-Added Tax (VAT) on private education.

Every now and then one is faced with local stories that leave one questioning the purpose of life.

There are almost two hundred thousand people living in Georgetown. Yet, I am often asked by acquaintances about places to rent in the city.

People dying from AIDS in the present time seems rare. There was a time when people would die, especially the young, and one would often hear, “De big truck knock she down” or “He had de truck.”

Earlier this week, we celebrated Phagwah. Phagwah is a Hindu festival of colours and celebrates good over evil and the beginning of Spring.

Skeletal remains were found in 1974 in Ethiopia from a female hominid of the Australopithecus afarensis species, who has been called Lucy and who is said to be one of our earliest potential ancestors.

I suppose people have always been fascinated with the element known as fire.

This week a woman humiliated a popular Disc Jockey who goes by the name DJ Magnum.

A couple of weeks ago, I attended an evening of reflection for the late Ronald Waddell.

I would imagine that no one pictures their child/children being in a sex tape at any point in their lives.

Paid parking is now a reality in Georgetown. While some seem to have no issue with the new system, many are objecting.

The eyes of the desperate are often sad and pleading and if one stares into them long enough, empathy is evoked.

Security guards are people who deserve the utmost respect. It is a profession that many of us would never venture into either because of the pay, the shifts or because our qualifications and/or interests lead us in a different direction.

Sometimes the dreadfulness stemming from social issues and disappointments with the powers of the day seem to overshadow all the other things that are happening in our country.