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– By Yvonne Sam
The absence of shopping manners especially during the festive season is truly calamitous.
The holiday season is already on us, and strangely enough large department stores, shopping malls and food courts, figuratively speaking are presenting dependable petri dishes for sociologists burrowing into or ferreting out the morass of human self-entitlement, self-absorption and self-centered behavior. Continue reading
Marriage: Women know things that men don’t – By Fred Klett
Women know things that men don’t, it’s a miracle that men survive at all according to Fred Klett. Watch “One Of Ten” by Fred Klett only at http://www.drybarcomedy.com/fredk
ROSES ON THE ATLANTIC FOR A FLOWER FROM GUYANA – Short Story
By Bertrand Ramcharan
They had traversed the Atlantic half a century earlier, from Guyana to London, in pursuit of higher education. They had both obtained doctorates from British universities, and their only son had also received a doctorate in Switzerland. They had been a happy family, and she was the inspiration: beautiful in mind and body, beautiful in honour, and gracious in personality. Such a lovely person.
And now, half a century later, she had been called to heaven. And he was again on the Atlantic, but this time alone. And he thought of her; much. What a gem of a person she had been. She had been his strength, his anchor, his solace. Continue reading
As Labour launches its 2019 election manifesto, we break down the details – from Brexit to housing
John Pavlovitz | Stuff That Needs to be Said
This President has been many things since arriving: A national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the English language.
But he has also been a floodlight. He has fully exposed millions of people who had kept themselves carefully concealed. I can really see them now in ways I never could previously. It’s all out in the open.
Intellectually I always knew that racism was deeply embedded into the fabric of our nation, but I had convinced myself that it had slowly but certainly begun to unravel, that we weren’t as hopelessly bound by it as our ancestors had been. Continue reading
Eliza Relman – Nov 9, 2019,
Former Vice President Joe Biden (right) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Richard Drew/AP Images
– By Yvonne Sam
In Mis-Education of the Negro, Carter Woodson the father of Black History asserts, “Blacks sometimes choose their own leaders but unfortunately they are too often the wrong kind. WE do not readily follow persons with constructive programs. Almost any sort of exciting appeal or trivial matter presented to them may receive immediate attention and liberal support.
In many circles we have become so intellectually lazy that we will believe just about anything from anyone, that is, as long as long as we do not have to do anything except trumpet a Promised Land/ Eden message, and if we never have to sacrifice for the collective benefit of each other. There are so called Black leaders who in spite of their underhand tactics, their portrayal of themselves as honest brokers, their shadowy-deal making, and their sell-out prowess seem to be exempt from being exposed by our community. While the community has always had to deal with these miscreants we have been reluctant to call them out- to expose them for what they really are. Continue reading
L
arry Romanoff | Global Research
This is about a little-known and never-discussed part of US history, but yet one of the major factors that propelled the US to its overwhelming manufacturing and economic supremacy after the Second World War. It involves the final destruction of the British Empire, for which no thinking person would have regrets.
The First World War caused Britain to lose about 40% of its former Empire and wealth, and the Second World War completed this task, but not without the little-known predatory intercession of the United States of America.
During the Second War, Britain needed huge volumes of supplies of food, raw materials, manufactured goods, armaments and military hardware. But Britain’s factories were being destroyed by the war, and in any case lacked sufficient productive capacity. Britain also increasingly lacked money to pay for those goods, its solution being to purchase on credit from its colonies. Continue reading
By Subraj Singh – Guyana Chronicle – November 3, 2019
THIS year marks exactly ten years since I graduated from High School. I went to Queen’s College (QC) from 2004 – 2009 and this school, incidentally, is celebrating its 175th anniversary.
I find it strange that this school is so old and has a long and storied history, with so little of it documented. This lack of proper documentation means that much of the legacy and lore of the school can only be passed on through oral traditions, from the alumni to the people, which in the 21st Century is a bit antiquated method. Of course, there are the sporadic bursts of publications here and there, but there is nothing comprehensive that tells the school’s story from the days of handsome Victorian scholars to the multicultural coed institution that now represents the best high schoolers in Guyana. Continue reading
The ELITE: Unequal power and unequal sacrifice | Gregory Aboud | TEDxPort-of-Spain
In his talk, Gregory Aboud speaks of the need for a higher level of accountability from the people who hold more power and influence in society because of their status in society. He calls for the need for conscience and common sense from the elite so that necessary constitutional reform can be achieved. Continue reading →
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