Sunday, March 1, 2026

GUYANA BUDGET DEBATE

There are two vital things people seem not to know. The purpose of politics is for managing their affairs. Every politician appointed to the political apparatus has a fiduciary responsibility to work for the greater good of every citizen because the practice of politics is commissioned by a national Constitution.

GECOM COMMISSIONERS TURMOIL

There was never any PNC push back when the PPP went against the law of permanence of the GECOM appointees and routinely changed their Commissioners.

GUYANA NATIONAL BUDGET

This makes the annual budget inherently inaccurate, a system of perpetual revision in between Census reporting.

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RICE CRISIS

These things are best understood in perspective. Historic Perspective, in this case ,takes us back to 1750 when rice was first introduced as a crop,...

THE 92 DOCTORS – NOT GRANGER’S FAULT

When the State Organ, Guyana Chronicle, fails to lead the story, we get distortions that are designed to mislead. First, let’s understand that the unemployment...

MOZART THOMAS: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

Well, it’s been weeks since we've been putting up with State Media Guyana Chronicle, lamenting at its lethargy, how it never breaks news, only...

IRRELEVANT RELEVANCE – JAGDEO’S FORTE

What should remain on rotation in our memories is that Bharaat Jagdeo is no authority on growing economies. What we must remember is he is...

HAMMY AND VAN WEST CHARLES – REDUX

A few weeks ago, a little after Hammy Greene received his national honour, Order of Roraima, the nation’s second highest honor – and during...

OBSCENE PAY RAISE – IN SPITE OF…

The issue could have been presented in contrast. The PPP’s Clement Rohee has lambasted the Coaltion’s decision to hike the salaries/ pay raises of government...

CHRONICLE CONFUSED

And, to the one hundred day metric, commonly used to predict Presidential success, Barrack Obama appended the need to "harness new technologies to put...

DIPLOMATIC BYPASS – SUSPECT SURGERY

Now that the Diplomatic hurdles have been vaulted and Presidents Granger (Guyana) and Maduro (Venezuela) have agreed that the countries’ relationship is healthy enough...

WHERE IS THE GUYANA STATE MEDIA ON THIS?

We’ve already offered the diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder for Bharrat Jagdeo, so, to say that he is afflicted with acute hubris would be...

CALL IN THE EQUALIZER

And, when these AK-47’s AR-15’s and sub-machine guns are found, they are in the hands of marginally educated young men, committing bloody murder often...

PUBLIC MEDIA IN POOR TASTE

The ethics of the trade stipulate permanent responsibility for what one writes, when one chooses to profess journalism. The only time that stipulation is...

DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT:FAIT UN-ACCOMPLI

It follows that IOM, International Organization for Migration, will be as helpful as the homeland of the migrants wants it to be. It should...

BHARRAT JAGDEO – NUEVO DIPLOMATICO

The historic recall is, understandably, fragmentary. But there are two pieces that remain pellucidly clear. The 1899 Award of land to Britain, of then British Guiana,...

COMMISSIONER REMAINS CURIOUS CHOICE

Because we can’t really plot this curiously meandering line of ascendancy to the Presidency, let’s just say Cheddi begat Sam who begat Janet who...
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