Indigenous land rights vs Eric Phillips’ racist banter
It is no coincidence that Chairman of the Guyana Reparations Committee Eric Phillips, appeared before the Lands Commission of Inquiry to claim fifteen thousand...
Mining, Indigenous land rights and the Stockholm Syndrome
One year ago, Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams, to the amusement of many, audaciously forecasted that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Opposition would join...
Rejecting State Control of the Media
With the recently amended Broadcasting Act, television and radio stations will be forced to provide free air time to the Government of Guyana. TV...
Roots & grass roots
Used loosely by an increasing number of individuals and organisations purporting to represent the people, the term « grass roots » is gaining in...
Passive acceptance by people
The ruling delivered by the High Court on how the Constitution should be interpreted when it comes to appointing a Chairman to the Guyana...
Accomplices of our own demise
For too long Guyanese have been entrusting the task of nation-building to politicians without realising that citizens themselves have an important role to play...
A posse of tearful caimans
“Government gotta find a place fuh put me in, right. Government brought me from my home, not a house, I don’t live in a...
Racism, Guyana’s invited enemy
Racism is the insidious enemy of our developing nation, but it’s an invited enemy and food for politicians. Less subtly, it has become the...
“Exploiting the dark underside of identity politics”
Last Thursday I presented a paper on the transition of Portuguese identity in Guyana, at the Ecotones-2 Conference hosted by the University of Poitiers...
Keith Scott’s mouth, Eric Phillips’s words
“Sovereignty
belongs to the State, not to the people”, declared Keith Scott, Labour Minister within the Social Protection Ministry (unless he was demoted or upgraded...