September is Indigenous Heritage Month
September is Indigenous Heritage Month. It is also Education Month. In this column I will reflect on the entry of conventional education through schools in indigenous communities, beginning with colonialism. Schooling was designed to “educate us” into being submissive to a foreign, central authority. The strategy was one of social transformation, but with the intention of introducing radical changes to our indigenous cosmology, since indigenous education in essence is based on social interactions and collective actions. Continue reading
Mr Jagdeo: Stop the ghetto politics, cuss and buze out behavior – By Lincoln Lewis
Mr. Jagdeo, go to work and stop buzing – By Lincoln Lewis – Commentary
Bharrat Jagdeo
Bharrat Jagdeo: As a participant in the process whereby he was elected to the National Assembly (and a taxpayer who pays his monthly pension of G$1.2 million, his transportation, driver, 24-hour security, electricity and water bills, his gardener, household assistants and office staff, medical bills for him and dependent members of his family, vacation allowance equivalent to two first class return airfares to wherever he chooses, and for the Queenstown office), he must know it would be an abrogation of my civic duty not to hold him to account.
Somehow, he thinks opting for the presidential package as against the Opposition Leader’s salary exonerates him from constitutional duty for the job he holds. Continue reading →
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