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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Eyewitness: Rumble…at Black Magenta

Your Eyewitness didn’t even know that bastion of colonial privilege – the Georgetown Club, which didn’t even accept the low-born Scottish sugar plantation overseers...

Eyewitness: Telling it…like it is

The UN-sponsored commemorative “Days” are usually innocuous events that let various and sundry interest groups tell the world they’re alive and (possibly) kicking. Now...

Eyewitness: Changeable…weather and reaction

On Saturday there was a squall over Bath on West Coast Berbice that took the residents by complete surprise. A few roofs were blown...

EYEWITNESS: Crime… enigma

Every year for the past two decades, the Police have been issuing statistics to “show” that the crime rate is falling!! Now, with all...

Eyewitness: Arrival…or Indian Arrival??

Your Eyewitness – like most of you, dear readers – couldn’t help noticing the fervent calls for the present “Arrival Day” public holiday on...

Eyewitness: Freedom…of the press

We just commemorated “World Press Freedom Day”, so there are all sorts of hullabaloo, analysis, discussion and commemoration to mark the occasion. But we...

Eyewitness: Same ole…trade union rigmarole

Your Eyewitness wonders if when the Dodo was becoming extinct it did all sorts of crazy things. No…he doesn’t have too much time on...

Eyewitness: Fulminations…of labour

As expected, your Eyewitness read with bemusement the opening salvo on blaming the abysmal state of the trade union movement on everything but themselves,...

EYEWITNESS: Labour’s love lost… in the trade union movement

Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour Lost” is a comedy about three fellas who gave their oaths to follow the straight and narrow (to avoid women) and...

EYEWITNESS: Misinformed… or mischievous PNC?

As you, dear readers, would know, the moment Granger folded after his foolish attempt to rig the 2020 elections, your Eyewitness has been exhorting...

Recent Articles

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Global Super League trophy unveiled

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3 cops under close arrest as OPR probes shooting incident at Lethem

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Motorcyclist killed on Corentyne Highway

An unlicensed motorcyclist was on Friday afternoon killed after driving into a parked lorry along the Corentyne Highway in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne). Dead is...

Corentyne fire that killed 5 was deliberately set – Divisional Fire Officer

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No decision yet on use of biometrics at 2025 polls – GECOM Chair

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Customs Officer charged for exposing genitals to policeman

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Guyanese wins prestigious Lambeth Cross for outstanding service

Sheran Harper, A.A., has been awarded the Cross of St Augustine for Services to the Anglican Communion, recognising her exceptional contributions over more than...

Brutus slapped with more charges, granted $1.4M bail

Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus has been slapped with additional criminal charges. Brutus, a businessman named Corwin Nicholson and a Police Sergeant named Latoya...