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Jun 18, 2018 kaieteur News Former Presidential Advisor, Dr. Jan Mangal is calling for an immediate investigation into all oil blocks given out during the era of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C). In a missive to the media on Saturday, the Oil and Gas Consultant said he suspects that the blocks were…
Continue readingJun 19, 2018 KAIETEUR NEWS Letters Dear Editor, The letter published in Kaieteur News, on Monday, June 18, 2018, titled ‘Don’t Trivialise History’ written by Lincoln Lewis is timely. I believe it should be sent to all Ministers and Administrators. The irony is that the President has anchored his words and deeds…
Continue readingJun 19, 2018 kaieteur news Letters Dear Editor, A hypothesis: if my good friend Dr. Steve Surujbally was still Chairman of GECOM and had cast his vote for Vishnu Persaud, would the PPP have expected any other political party to trumpet “racial bias”? Just asking. Yours faithfully Rashleigh E Jackson
Continue readingJun 19, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon When Prime Ministers and Presidents offer explanations to their nations for a policy, action, decision, indiscretion, mistake, etc., one assumes that it is watertight, so unfair criticism could be easily dismissed, and the result is that there is no credibility loss. Last month President…
Continue readingstabroek news june 19, 2018 Roxanne Prince-Myers Incoming Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Roxanne Prince-Myers has dismissed the suggestion that her seemingly partisan Facebook posts make her unsuitable for the sensitive post, while saying that attention should instead be given to her strong track…
Continue readingJun 18, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon I didn’t want to lose concentration when the card was in the ATM because if you do not pull it out in time, the machine retrieves it. I didn’t want that to happen because the institution I fear the most in Guyana is a…
Continue readingstabroek news june 18, 2018 By: Wazir Mohamed & Mark Chatarpal Dr. Wazir Mohamed is a former activist and co-leader of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA). He is now an Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University (IU), East. Dr. Mohamed holds a B.S. in Communication from the University of…
Continue readingJun 17, 2018 Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, Features / Columnists The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C)-elected Member of Parliament (MP) Gillian Burton-Persaud has consented to the Trade Union’s call for Labour to have equal prominence in society, and the advancing of this call, by bringing a Motion to the National Assembly…
Continue readingstabroek news letter june 17, 2018 Dear Editor, In a previous letter I indicated that in 2013, on the eve of GECOM`s consideration of Mr. Gocool Boodoo`s application for a renewal of contract, the PPP started a campaign accusing the “PNC” commissioners of ridding GECOM of Indo-Guyanese. On that occasion,…
Continue readingJun 17, 2018 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon The nephew of the Guyanese icon, Moses Bhagwan, Mr. Naim Chan, invited me and David Hinds on his daily morning programme on CNS Channel 6 to discuss the 38th death anniversary of Walter Rodney last Wednesday. Chan asked both of us if we would…
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