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Monday, February 3, 2025

Eyewitness: Apartness…in Guyana?

“Apartheid” is the Afrikaans’ word for “apartness”, which became the official policy in South Africa after the National Party (NP) – the party of...

EYEWITNESS: Defending Guyana…in Carnival Land

It’s a good thing President Ali’s a citizen of Guyana…with the amount of time he’s been spending abroad to either defend or sell Guyana,...

EYEWITNESS: Spare a thought…for the elderly

Friday was “International Youth Day”. That’s right, there’s been a day set aside for our yutes since the beginning of our new millennium. But...

EYEWITNESS: Launching…Black Friday II?

The PNC held their rally to commemorate the second anniversary of the end of their 5-month quixotic (delusional? demented?) holdout on the March 2,...

EYEWITNESS: Two years on…Quo vadis?

No…your Eyewitness won’t ask from where we’ve come, but rather, “Where are we going?” If you need to be reminded about the former question,...

EYEWITNESS: Freedom… in the air

Well, the countdown has begun; the countdown to Emancipation Day, in case you’ve been on Mars over the last month, and missed all the...

EYEWITNESS: Too hot…for democracy

In general, your Eyewitness doesn’t believe in politicians suing newspapers and other media for reporting on their sometimes-vilifying charges against their opponents. In a...

EYEWITNESS: The leaders…go to Washington

In the 1939 classic movie, “Mr Smith goes to Washington”, the idealistic but very naïve Jimmy Stewart wants to do a good deed for...

EYEWITNESS: Changes…in the Constitution

There are folks who’ve been stamping their feet and screaming “constitutional change or else!!”  After our history with constitutional change in Guyana, you wonder...

EYEWITNESS: Eye pass…in Parliament

Eye pass… …in Parliament No matter how you cut it, slice it, or dice it, the outcome of the Opposition MPs creating bedlam in Parliament when...

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4 charged for several robberies on Corentyne

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