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Kaieteur News, Sun 4th May 2008
Three Jamaicans and a rotting donkey
Over the years, the Ministry of Tourism and the tourism people have bemoaned the constant appearance of crime stories in the daily newspapers. Now President Jagdeo has gotten into the act of lamenting gory images on the front pages of our newspapers. There are [...]

Let me tell you a story of how unbelievable the violation of the nationalist principles of this country by the present PPP Government is. I got a story in 2006 from one of the most powerfully placed persons in the Government, one who works closely with President Jagdeo. This person is a Jagdeo loyalist and [...]

Across two continents at the same time, two presidents were addressing the problems of their respective countries using different methodologies.
The dissimilarities in political styles and political approaches to the use of power typify the essential differences between the politics of the developed, industrial West and the Third World.
In Guyana, in a speech to the annual [...]

There are some expressions of life that we encounter, and they make us wonder about the character of those who want to lead us to the Promised Land. They shock us. They amaze us. But in the end we come to accept that life is a paradox, hard as that is to accept. Guyana’s contemporary [...]

I am tired of seeing Freddie Kissoon referring to me in his articles. In his response to Ravi Dev on 17 April in Stabroek News, this is what he wrote:
“Did Dev have in mind those who turned their backs on the country of their birth like Dr. Randy Persaud and his brother, Walter, David [...]

Dear Editor,
Please permit me to respond to columnist Frederick Kissoon’s article “Public intellectuals and violent gunmen” published in Kaieteur News on April 17.
I will state this as clearly as I can so Mr. Frederick Kissoon never forgets it. Are you ready Mr. Kissoon?
Upon receiving my PhD I applied for a job at the University [...]

Dear Editor,
Even though many have advised that I should leave unanswered, what I dubbed in 1992, “Mr. Fredrick Kissoon’s querulous polemics”, I do believe that he performs a yeoman task in this country – that of a public intellectual gadfly.
This is not an inconsiderable contribution in the creation or maintenance of a democratic society. [...]

Public intellectuals and violent gunmen
Let me dwell on the evasiveness of Ravi Dev by first making two assertions. One is that I would never deny any Guyanese who live outside, their right to live in this country and speak on behalf of it. George Bernard Shaw once wrote that “Patriotism is your conviction that this [...]

I hope Dr. Randy Persaud does not take it personally (I am just being polemical) when I say that he made the right choice in that he and his family live in the US, where he teaches at an American university. He chose not to settle down with his qualifications in a Third World country. [...]

Dear Editor,
I was tempted after a more recent event has come to pass, to admit that the Kaieteur News columnist, Freddie Kissoon, was almost right - even strangely prophetic: he had interpreted my reconciliation with the PPP’s government and party leadership as an act of political suicide.
Before I could do so, my attention was drawn [...]

Ravi Dev has the temerity to quote Barack Obama
When I reached a certain part of what is now one of the most famous speeches by a politician in modern history — Senator Barack Obama’s delivery on race as his reaction to those who claimed that his church preacher, Rev. Wright, is a racist — my [...]

Funny is a very, overused word. Whenever we cannot understand people, we say they are funny. Whenever we do not understand a course of action from anyone, we say it was a funny thing they did. If we find a country not in keeping with the culture we were born into, we say it is [...]

Help me sing these songs of freedom!
It never ceases to amaze me how decent minds cannot understand the level of shocking and abysmal political degeneracy that many PPP leaders have descended to. Is it that they do not want to for some cultural reason?

A man who sells potions in a traveling show
Unless a history-maker confessed in his/her memoirs before they died or confesses while they are still alive, we will never know if they genuinely believed in the things they told us or were just selling us deceptions for their own particular reasons. Cheddi Jagan and Tony [...]

Dear Editor,The effectiveness of the pen is that it pierces the conscience of those who err. There is no pain from physical assault, the pen inflicts pain to the mind of those who in their palaces are protected by their armies and forces; those who wear the suits, jackets and ties and are of [...]