Five youths were awarded on Friday with cash grants from the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly -Guyana (IDPADA-G) to invest in their businesses. Clinton Samuels of COBBEC Vision received $500,000; Earlecia Hieronymo of Khayr Organics -$250,000; Brian Smith of Dragonfly Geospatial Aerial Productions – $150,000; Jermaine Hall of Country Boy Farming Supplies – $75,oo0; and Delon Simpson […]
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It is an extremely difficult undertaking. Democracy is hard. This sentiment is not driven by any abhorrence for this form of government. On the contrary, in my judgment, it is the best form of government. However, love for this system should not preclude a critical examination of same. Achieving consensus on any matter of consequence from interests groups, who are […]
When CARICOM Day is upon us, there is the usual razzle and dazzle of social media frenzy and official public relations from the communication unit of the CARICOM Secretariat. The day is often fraught with an ephemeral euphoria that is seemingly designed to take our minds off the fact that decades after the formation of CARICOM, we have failed to […]
When Vladimir Putin announced his purported ‘Special Operation’ in the Donbass region, my mind immediately raced to the President of Ukraine. I was compelled to muster all of my knowledge to rationalize a circumstance where a former comedian with zero experience in political leadership, could stand a chance in hell against one of the world’s most seasoned, shrewd and vicious […]
By Ronald Austin Jr. When Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias escaped prison time for his role in the 1992 coup d’etat, he subsequently formed the Fifth Republic Movement. His political party carried the usual clarion calls for the South American left and he received 56.2% of the vote and became President in 1998. The rise of Chavez and his leftist ideology […]
A slew of nexuses has been drawn between Guyana’s border controversy with Venezuela and the Russia/Ukraine war. As someone who pays keen attention to the matter, I have been particularly struck by the suggestion that maybe we should start massive militarization and prepare to defend the homeland in the event of an invasion of Venezuela. At the risk of sounding […]
It is folly to argue that what is happening between Russia and Ukraine has nothing to do with the price of cheese in Guyana. Indifference is not an option. As a nation with a border dispute hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles, it is absolutely our business. The images of Russian tanks and trucks proceeding on the […]
Drawing on the work of Plutarch’s ‘Lives of the Caesar’, William Shakespeare conceived of a literary masterpiece, ‘Julius Caesar’. In this play, there are noteworthy political lessons but for me, Marc Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral was the apogee of the literary mastery. Following the assassination of Caesar by conspirators such as Cassius and Brutus, the grand funeral was planned. […]
During a few outbursts in the Guyana Parliament, the glory of Queen’s College was unceremoniously invoked. Subsequently to the exchange that saw one school denigrated, a few anti-QC social media apparatchiks could not miss the opportunity to take their pound of flesh. As a result, several posts appeared on Meta that echoed the hackneyed myth about QC people being elitist, […]
Ever since the powerful international community interests made democracy the preferred governance model, most nations have been forced to get on board or face sanctions or international isolation. As a result, leaders with the most autocratic tendencies have been compelled to mask these tendencies for the sake of survival. Beneath the veneer of a seemingly dogged commitment to respecting the […]
