Opinion

City advertising skip bin service it does not have facilities for

Dear Editor, There is an old adage in Guyana which says that one needs to learn to creep, before one can learn to walk, but it sounds like the Georgetown Municipality has never heard of this, as they always seem anxious to get involved in secondary activities before they even come close to mastering the primary ones that they are obligated to provide to the citizenry, and I will give a few of many such unfortunate examples.

Facial recognition technology

Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, never a one for great reflection on our liberal values, was unsurprisingly in full rapturous mode at the launch of the Safe City surveillance system in Georgetown last week. 

Freedom

Today Guyana observes the 181st anniversary since African slaves who had been brought to this part of the world were freed from the abominable, dehumanising condition of captivity, which to date defies definition.

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