SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE HOSTS THE MEDIA – by Francis Quamina Farrier
Francis Quamina Farrier
Speaker of the House, the Guyana National Parliament, Hon. Dr. Barton U.A. Scotland, O.R, M.P, on Tuesday October 25, 2016, hosted members of the Guyana Media, at the Parliament Lounge, Public Buildings. And what a session it was! It was the very first occasion of Dr Scotland hosting the Media, and he made the observation that the Guyana Media Corps was made up of more youthful reporters than the matured.
Nonetheless, the reporters in attendance, posed many probing questions to the Speaker, and on many occasions, Dr. Scotland not just eloquently responded, but on quite a few occasions, posed another question to the reporter’s initial one. For example, when asked, “What can you do to raise the level of the debates in Parliament?” the Speaker quickly threw the question back to the reporter, “What can we all do?” Then added, “We are all Guyanese, and we are all in the same boat. “We can paddle together, or not, and go nowhere.” Continue reading →
Race Worldviews: Parallel universes, even among the young … in the USA
Parallel universes, even among the young in the USA
By Catherine Rampell – October 28 at 2:41 PM – Washington Post
Reminders of this came recently via three — count ’em, three — separate new polls of millennials, all released this week. Each of them showed striking differences in worldviews by race/ethnicity, all within the same, mostly liberal generation. Continue reading →
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