Verian Mentis-Barker

journalist, freelance writer, author,publisher

THE LIVES OF BLACK MEN DO MATTER – JUST LIKE ALL OTHERS

Yvonne Sam: Contributor     As The Pall of Gloom Lifts—All Parts of the Problem need to be Exposed Firstly permit me to offer my condolences to the family...

GUYANA GOVERNMENT REMAINS OUT OF TOUCH

It’s better to start where it all began. President Granger was elected when the country was a looter’s paradise. The economy was fueled more by nefarious...

TRUMP: THE UNSERIOUS

We can say that the unfathomable has happened. America, a country that boasts of its sophistication, its superior civilized standards, its intellectual accomplishments and general...

THE FIBER OPTIC CHALLENGE

The easier place to start is Robert Corbin’s questioning of the sale of twenty percent of the Government's shares in Guyana Telephone and Telegraph...

THE CORRUPT CALLING FOR JUSTICE …MORE THAN AN OXYMORON

The affront is that the corruption was hardly committed with any ingenuity. It was just a barbaric plundering and pillaging of the coffers of a...

PUBLIC VOICE VITAL TO GOVERNMENT

The prevailing sentiment is that one “cannot support and slap at the same time”. It’s an insular model of thinking that has created a polarizing...

DOES SUING KAIETEUR NEWS HELP?

There’s nothing wrong with a politician claiming libel and slander by the media. But there’s a finesse to it, an articulation that adds credibility to...

GUYANESE SET TO CHANGE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE IN GEORGIA USA

Before I began interviewing him, Mr. Johnson asked for an excuse to return a phone call. Apparently, a campaign aide had sent an email to...

MARRIOTT REFUSES TO FEATURE GUYANESE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

There are a couple of things you won’t get when you go to the Marriott Guyana to celebrate the country’s Jubilee –    in...

SECURITY ASSURANCE NEEDS TO BE EMPHASIZED

What would have been far more comforting than the statistics released by the Guyana Police Force to convey the state of the nation’s crime...

NO CODE BREACHED IS A MATTER OF ELECTORATE OPINION

I’ll begin by stating what the Guyanese people view as obvious. President Granger continues to extend inexplicable latitude to his Minister of Presidency for whom...

NARROW MINDED POLICY – THE CASE FOR MARIJUANA

Gordon Forte: Contributor       Dear Editor, I have been disturbed, along with other Guyanese, to see our President lending his prestige to a company that produces some of...

NARROW MINDED POLICY – THE CASE FOR MARIJUANA

Gordon Forte: Contributor     Dear Editor, I have been disturbed, along with other Guyanese, to see our President lending his prestige to a company that produces some of...

RUSHING REPAIR A RISKY MOVE

What we expected to hear from Minister Patterson was that he had called for the architectural drawings of this hapless stadium and had gone...

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