Frankly Speaking

Perhaps a little research can reveal if we – less than a million of us – really boast, proportionally, too many national holidays.

Crime –  as trade and profession Just the briefest of my own grass-roots, man–in-the-street brand of “philosophising” about the implications of the behaviours now being exhibited by some “new” personalities in high places.

 -Primo passes pellets Most of you will bear with me and this short sharp blast on my own personal trumpet. 

Any of you ever heard how Forbes Burnham inveigled Barrister-at-law Desmond Hoyte to join him and the PNC in sophisticated, but activist party politics?

Emanating from my brief paid-up membership but years-long support of and for the People’s National Congress (PNC) – 1973 to around 1996 – I was one under–35 who admired Leader Forbes Burnham and wondered about the brash, ubiquitous, once-powerful Deputy, Hamilton Green.

 – Remembering Thomas Didymus Thick, fast and sustained the comments, criticisms, suggestions flow via the media, recreational spots, “workshops” and from government and opposition. 

This land is my land. Whose?   You would be right to suspect, even conclude; that I like to explore definitions and meanings in my old dictionaries.

Greetings! As I hereby present one of my very brief – and rather escapist – pieces today.

 – truth and healing The Special (?) Organised Crime Unit, the State Assets Recovery (?)

Here are some relevant definitions from one of my old-time dictionaries.

See how brief I can be today. As I comment on America’s DEA.

If there is any society on our planet that is absolutely, perfectly classless, I have not yet been convinced about its existence.

Basdeo questions Bharrat After completing twenty-three years within this ‘paper and column, regulars would appreciate that I am not given to – or can’t manage – the more academic, more analytical/philosophical reviews and assessments, whilst discussing or exploring issues.

  -We’re 23 today!Strange how one can juxtapose seemingly oblique, or very unrelated events, personalities, reminiscences, when one vivid, even startling bit of drama unfolds.

 Just one anniversary IdeaAgain disregarding my preference for staying away from certain “hot” issues that attract current national attention from the more qualified, I nevertheless, feel obliged to repeat my own perspectives on matters related to capital punishment.

What follows, from paragraph two hereunder, are my recycled thoughts first published here more than three years ago.

During May-June last year   they solemnly and spitefully promised to deliver what we – meaning all those not with them – seem to be receiving: A cheated-not-defeated/oppose-expose-depose parliamentary and political opposition.

Well, well, well, do you realise that this December’s Christmas Season is the first one that young Guyanese, twenty three years and young, will spend not under a PPP government?

With a week to go before the ordained day, I know that many will be preoccupied, so today I spell brevity.

Okay my annual Yuletide lamentation is becoming, for me, as traditional as all the universal and (very) local activities and traditions now associated with this “joyous” Christians Festival being celebrated in December.