Saturday, September 13, 2025

REASSURANCE REQUIRED

A volcano of bombast and stray thoughts...

REBOOT OR PERISH

There was always going to be a winner in this 2025 election. It was never going to be PNC because of its compromised interpretation of leadership and the surrender to its substandard.

POLL PROGNOSTICATOR

And, Coalition indecision is not helping to assuage the anxieties of its electorate, either. Its multiple near-death experiences are taking a toll on its electorate...with social battle lines entrenched and contentious warriors dug in for the long haul.

Verian Mentis-Barker

journalist, freelance writer, author,publisher

GUYANA CAUGHT IN THE CHINA TRAP

REPUBLISHED Back then it was Red China. Beijing was Peking. Its ambitions were cocooning with sights set on the Western Hemisphere. Now, some serendipity. British Guiana becomes independent in...

GUYANA CAUGHT IN THE CHINA TRAP

Back then it was Red China. Beijing was Peking. Its ambitions were cocooning with sights set on the Western Hemisphere. Now, some serendipity. British Guiana becomes independent in...

IN DEFENSE OF OIL

“Matters not if Guyana secured a good or bad deal, we got a deal…time to move on” – Finance Minister Winston Jordan, on oil. Maybe on...

Diaspora Engagement Conference

….and in spite of all its successes the bigger take away was that Carl Greenidge, under whose portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs falls...

ALL HANDS ON OIL

When the International Financial News Organs mention the Liza 1 and 2 and the Stabroek oil wells found in the waters of its off-shore,...

PPP GOVERNMENT LAND GIVEAWAY

To understand this we will have to go back a few centuries to establish the mores of the Guyanese East Indian and the Guyanese...

TRUMP: CONSISTENTLY CLASSLESS

That the superlatives to describe the crass incivility that is Donald Trump’s personality are immeasurable, was established during his gutter slog to  Party Nomination,...

BLIND LOYALTY NOT HELPING HERE

Their impious fidelity demands that saying anything against the government requires balance- like for every bad that is said a good should be cited...

GUYANA: POLITICAL PURGATORY

It could easily be Political Purgatory…except that there is more repetition than expiation of sins. The inerrant rhythm with which this new Administration is repeating...

UNDUE DILIGENCE -GUYANA’S RESOURCE DILEMMA

The abuse of public office for private gain is a political pandemic native to resource- rich countries that meet and surpass the Transparency International...

EMPLOYEE APPRECIATION DAY -SHHHH

Friday March 3rd 2017, went by with little fanfare. Most people only noted it because it was a Friday and marked the beginning of the...

PREDATORY PARKING METERS

There is a principle that revolves around Supplier Integrity/Due Diligence in Public Procurement that democratic governments comply with to reduce, if not eliminate, the...

WHAT ABOUT THIS HOMELESS GUY?

"Build the fence around Mike Pence"…rang the chant from the crowd that had marched down to Morgan Square  in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to hammer...
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