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On a hot summer night, at the Pegasus Hotel, the Private Sector and the media saw the pangs of dicta

Monday, 31 August 2009

I don’t know the names of the journalists that covered Mr. Jagdeo’s presentation at the dinner hosted by the Private Sector Commission last Friday evening but if the “older heads” were there like Enrico Woolford, Bert Wilkinson and others who worked in the eighties, then the mental stress they endured is something we would not want to imagine. These are media workers who have seen the descent into authoritarianism under both Burnham and Hoyte and how the media became devoured by the pangs of dictatorship.

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Is this evil? The revelations of Moses Nagamootoo

Saturday, 29 August 2009

The first time I met Dr. David Dabydeen was at a small party at Moses Nagamootoo’s house. I was the only one in the crowd that was not drinking. I hate alcohol, any form of it. I was bored so I asked Moses for chocolate. He brought out a box. Most of the enjoyment was in the garden. Dabydeen and his wife came into the kitchen where I was, and my moment had arrived. I wanted to talk about politics. Dabydeen said to me that he was long smitten by Cheddi Jagan.

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A leg and an arm in the US Embassy

Friday, 28 August 2009
A common procedure in the US State Department is that when they post consular officers around the world, they supply each of them with a dossier on the citizens’ attitude to immigration to the US. In the case of Guyana, consular officers are told that this country is a high risk one in terms of non-return on visitor visas. More... Comments (1)

The Kissoons, the speed of justice and the cry for justice

Thursday, 27 August 2009
The nature of this country is so, so sad. We opened our newspapers and read that the Kissoon Group of Companies got a court order against CLICO. A week before, the centre page of the Stabroek News (Aug 9) carried a heart-breaking story about the very Kissoons. Now I am not saying that the Kissoons did a wrong; I am just describing what I read. More... Comments (5)

Robert Corbin got conned

Wednesday, 26 August 2009
In many ways, you have to show some understanding for the plight of Robert Corbin. This is not to say that he is a better candidate than the two major contestants that fought for the position of leadership - Alexander and Murray (I used the word “major” because Artie Ricknauth did oppose Corbin but he didn’t have the kind of support that Alexander and Murray had). More... Add new comment

The Guyanese people must demand these soldiers take a polygraph

Tuesday, 25 August 2009

The worst is yet to come and come it will. I speak as someone who lived under Burnham and saw the angry reaction of this entire nation, but greater tempest came from the East Indian population, to the scandals and mistakes of the PNC Government. What Burnham did was a drop in the ocean to what is unfolding under the PPP Government that sadly and tragically will have its climax in a Kafkaesque nightmare. This is a pathway we can avoid.

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