Frankly Speaking

Football – the beautiful game- For Christmas Saint Luke, Chapter Two and its numerous verses tell of what Christians refer to as the Nativity – the story of the birth of the Christ Child.

Our world today – gender – re-assigning Upfront let me record my solid position as a government pensioner frequently creating assignments to assist paying monthly bills from time to time: public servants’ basic salaries should have been increased by fifteen (15%) percent, if not higher!

Three months of the Christ-Mass? Frankly speaking I’m quite aware that any discussion surrounding the overall socio-economic success of one ethnic group in this challenged land of ours might breed some internal ill-will – or open rancour.

The police force, beef and chickenPerhaps the very final and conclusive results of this Tuesday’s American mid-term elections are not yet fully computed and completed as yet.

Nature’s fury adds to man’s inhumanity It was relatively easy for a one-time national election “animal” like me to become engrossed with the electoral goings–on – just past or current.

The British Visa under the Brigadier These days – at my age and stage – I would always prefer to be considered as pro-truth and pro-fact, rather than pro-PPP, or pro-PNC, or pro- any other political outfit.

Loving and paying for pets Just recently I was influenced to repeat a story once narrated to me because of a quite similar tale shared.

-The “working-from-home” phenomenon I peruse our newspapers and Internet Applications; watch and listen to television and political presentations, it is easy to appreciate that too many contributions – some unwittingly, many deliberately – often, even daily, either emphasise or incite our human contributors’ differences.

Perhaps, as usual, this is no scientific/political analysis; no academic dissertation; no intellectual discourse.

Proud Ole Newton visits New York What!? “Dying Role”? Most my few closer friends are younger than I am.

Already Oil-rich? Or wealth (to come)? I seriously doubt that I have the ability, journalistic/ literary stamina and relevance to write daily letters to the press.

-Ministers anonymous Should a government be “forgiven” for not finding time to facilitate street repairs and upgrades because it’s too busy constructing its evil big-picture apartheid?

God bless America – and that Blue Book Just slightly disappointed as I write.

Personal September memories For this commentary the definition of corruption will be “morally degenerate” and “a pattern or acceptance and execution of improper, immoral, illegal conduct”.

The meat we eat – municipal disgrace Yes man. Of course!

-When good police can do nothing more Of course I first interacted with the much-younger Linden product Aubrey Norton during my own by-gone “PNC days” (1973-1997).

Surely sugar is becoming bitter Quite recently I’ve been noticing observers and commentators yearning for constructive, robust but responsible parliamentary and political opposition.

It’s August! Explore Guyana! These few remarks probably best simplifies my personal understandings, approaches and stressful intolerance with respect to the concept and related issues regarding race.

My two favourite “Freedom Issues” I took a break from my usual Emancipation Lamentations in this space for a few years.

What “Amerindian”? What “indigenous”? I take my personal early “Augus’ holiday” in this column today.