Jun 25, 2019 Features / Columnists, – Freddie Kissoon
There aren’t adjectives to describe the type of struggle that is currently taking place between the PNC+AFC and the PPP for power, since the ruling by the CCJ. But what do they do with this power? They do any and everything with it, except to use it to make Guyana a better place, to socially elevate the citizenry, develop a physically modern country.
People who fought with Cheddi Jagan participated conspiratorially in the building of a Marriott Hotel, costing over sixty million American dollars, when they knew that an international hotel was not one of the last things, but the very last thing a poor country like Guyana needed.
When that building was going up, a majority of Guyana’s streets were (and are still) without street lamps; the country’s only university had (still has) dilapidated laboratories; the main hospital in Georgetown was still way below a tenth rate hospital in the developed world; state-run schools were in a rundown state (they still are); the country was still getting frequent blackouts (they have increased over the years). Continue reading →
WE DID NOT WANT TO KNOW – by Dave Martins + music videos
Dave Martins
WE DID NOT WANT TO KNOW – by Dave Martins
October 29, 2017
In an earlier comment about song-writing I made the point that while talent has to be there, the more critical quality is observation because that is almost always the ingredient that sets a song apart; the writer has turned a light on something in the society, or in an individual, that would have otherwise escaped the rest of us in the populace.
In fact, to look at the popular columnists or commentators in our local press – Freddie Kissoon, Ralph Ramkarran, Henry Jeffrey, Adam Harris, Christopher Ram, Ian McDonald, etc. – is to see this taking place as each writer brings us to something, or an aspect of something, that is new or revealing or thought-provoking. Continue reading →
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