By: RALPH RAMKARRAN The terms of the coalition between the APNU and AFC appear to have been agreed. The core elements are that Minister Khemraj Ramjattan will be…
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How Guyana can maximise its value from the oil and gas industry through local content
By: JC BHAGWANDIN In order to understand how Guyana can maximise its value from the oil and gas industry, we first have to understand the value chain of…
Shocking: Jordan confirms APNU/AFC wants to fire 15,000 public servants
By: DR. LESLIE RAMSAMMY Winston Jordan, Guyana’s worst Finance Minister ever, this week confirmed that, in addition to the 7000 sugar workers who were fired between 2016 and…
IMPEACHMENT
By: RALPH RAMKARRAN The impeachment inquiry now going on in the US House of Representatives, and televised daily, is as gripping as any psychological thriller. Alfred Hitchcock’s famous…
Discourse on race and racism
By: RAVI DEV With elections imminent, “race” has inevitably taken centre stage. In Guyana, the concept of “race” is a legacy of European rule. And it is not…
Democracy at legislative and national level has suffered grave damage as a consequence of CCJ’s failure
By: CHRISTOPHER RAM Paragraph 5 of the Judgment of the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered on 12 July 2019 on consequential orders flowing from the passage of the…
Granger Govt has been digging a hole and calling it progress
BY: ROBIN SINGH Bloomberg’s truth is not Guyana’s, the business news corporation is looking at oil production figures and projected earnings with a focus on how those will…
Lowenfield cannot serve 2 masters
BY: ANIL NANDALALL It is public knowledge that the Attorney General filed an appeal to the Guyana Court of Appeal against the decision of Chief Justice (ag) Roxanne…
Granger’s new agriculture promises are as empty as they were in 2015
By: LESLIE RAMSAMMY Elections are here and David Granger is making more empty, brazen promises, just as in 2015. For five years, Granger has implemented a vicious APNU+AFC…
Democratise parties so members choose Presidential and PM candidates
By: VISHNU BISRAM Reference is made to a Peeping Tom comment about parties undemocratically selecting Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates (Oct 19). Almost all of the political parties…