Mosa Telford

Cotton Tree Backdam West Coast Berbice remains a haunted place. Just four years ago it was there where the lifeless bodies of Joel and Isaiah Henry were found.

In Matthews Ridge at an abandoned airstrip 4.4 tonnes (8,000 pounds) of cocaine was found buried.

Like many Guyanese, I prefer to live in Guyana. This is home and no matter where in the world one travels there will never be a place like home.

Often, we see reports about missing teenaged girls. Sometimes it is reported that they returned home but without any information about why they were missing, if they were harmed and if there are interventions to protect, guide and counsel them.

Every year we celebrate Emancipation and still some people are yet to be free.

There is trouble on our roads. The results of recklessness reached a point of crisis eons ago.

The screams of the nation’s children should wake us. Young children burning in fires should shake us.

In May, I went to Cuba for the 21st ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival.

Whether we want to admit it or not, most people are followers.

Children walking aimlessly on the streets when they should be in school reflects a failed society.

The “B” word is not used officially to describe the Indigenous peoples of Guyana.

Visits by US congressmen spark hope in some and demonstrate desperation in others.

yana’s life support machine beeps and the blood pressure of citizens rises.

Tomorrow we are celebrating Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day was created by Anna Jarvis in 1908 and became official in the United States in 1914 to be celebrated on the second Sunday of May.

Ramy El-Batrawi who was the highest bidder for the Marriott Hotel recently passed away at the age of 62.

This week during the third session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent in Geneva, Switzerland, is when journalist and media personality Wanita Huburn was attacked for sharing her opinion on Facebook about the government taking accountability for the incompetence of the Guyana Power and Light.

Dead children cold in their mothers’ arms. Permanently injured children held by fathers trying to hide their tears.

People on the East Bank, West Bank and some parts of Georgetown have been complaining about smoke.

Vitesh Jamnapersad Guptar was arrested this week by the Guyana Police Force.

What is happening in Gaza is barbaric. It has been reported that since October of last year more than thirty-one thousand people have been killed and there have been over seventy-two thousand injuries.