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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Eyewitness: Of the dead (AFC)…

…speak only good Back in the day, when a classical education was de rigeur, the Latin phrase “De mortuis nihil nisi bonum” was quite popular....

Eyewitness: Spreading…

…culture? America’s inexorable spread of its culture across the world has earned the sobriquet “McDonaldization”; courtesy, of course, of those ubiquitous Golden Arches that have...

Eyewitness: Protecting…

…our border A couple of days ago, 26 Haitians were nabbed in two buses on route to Lethem, and 5 persons who arranged for their...

Eyewitness: Disappearing…

…GuySuCo’s assets In a year of astonishing events, your Eyewitness is yet astounded by a statement he just read in the newspapers made by the...

Eyewitness: Looting and grabbing…

…from the State The word “loot” entered the English language directly (and unchanged) from the Hindi dialect the British encountered in North India in the...

Shaking up…the old (UG) dinosaurs

Well, well, well! At long last, the Guyanese people got a statement out of the incestuous oligarchy that runs UG. It took an announcement...

Eyewitness: One for the…

…men? Well, in case you didn’t know, yesterday was “International Men’s Day”. And if you’re now asking, “What’s that?”, you’re in good company, with your...

Eyewitness: Moving on

…to where? Your Eyewitness has learnt that Barbados is going to sever all links with Britain and its Monarchy and declare itself a Republic. Oh...

Eyewitness: Looking back…

…at the gamble on Granger Your Eyewitness was trying to put himself in the shoes of your typical PNC supporter to figure out what he...

Pfizer vaccine has ‘95%’ efficacy in new analysis

(BBC) The coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech appears to protect 94% of adults over 65 years old. More data released from their ongoing...

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