Frankly Speaking

Exploring “Transactional” Sex Recall that last Friday I tickled Afro-centric representative organizations and other leaders of the “black” Afro- Guyanese community to reveal whether they are bothering with the traditional February–Black History/African Heritage Month observance.

I had already penned the lead caption when I realized that today being only the first day of February 2013, might make my offering both preemptive and premature.

This beautiful day has arrived – today!  This humble, man-in-the-street column has completed twenty (20) years today.

-Fighting Crime: Some Simple Steps On Wednesday morning I decided that I would use this theme (above) to, lazily but appropriately repeat some views.

– My dear Mayor Green – Let’s text for Young Bill Greetings to my layman, man-in-the-street, fellow citizens especially.

-The Wealth of the Wicked There are just hours before Christmas 2012-2013 formally ends.

– In 2013, Hug your woman, hide your ego We are still in the midst of the season or Festival of Christmas. 

I noticed that I used the same theme and style, as in today’s lead caption, a few years ago.

Soon. Soon it’ll be twenty years since I’ve been permitted to share my man-in-the-street, working-class, biased views through this medium.

The Tax-Payer Electorate: No Right To know? Greetings! Let’s see whether I can make this the most  brief in weeks. 

Shades of A “Bad John” Government? The lead component of today’s written conversation here is actually not mine.

“Shubh Diwali, Happy Mashramani” Not having attended Secondary School, much more the local University,  my unlettered, uncertified “inferiority complex”  intrudes whenever I make bold to comment on things related to our highest tertiary institution, the University of Guyana (UG).

Race: Holidays and the Census Super storm – From Manhattan to Mahaica “Happy Election Day” Settle down and pay attention class.

“Om Shree Ganesh Aya Namah” Gosh! Today I’m as guilty as those newspapers Editors who ensure that the subjects in my caption are plastered on their front pages.

-as reported in my Stabroek News… Both a recent visit to the United States Embassy’s Consular Section in Kingston, Georgetown and that component of the American Election Season which was the Presidential Debates, prompted this brief piece.

-When Good Police Retreat Yes they are distant places with distant – actually also distinct – cultures.

– Syria – and our humanity One of my shorter anxieties today, this is derived from two of my lifelong intrigues with politics and governments, patriotism and (variations of) democracy.

Demography, Control – and image Two tiny introductory points:  It was once advanced that a stranger could judge a new society after a little while, by how that society treats its books, treats its animals and treats its old people. 

– life in the kleptocracy I know I’ll earn editorial permission to make today’s offering most brief.

What? Islamic ingratitude? Greetings friends.  My file reveals that this piece is the third, in as many years, wherein I’ll recycle my oft-repeated views on aspects of the Guyana Police Force and policing in this, our law-and-order-forsaken society.