Daily Features

This week the voices calling for a lockdown in Guyana because of COVID-19 multiplied.

-The Virus, The Holy Father, The church The old PNC – (People’s National Congress) – friend accosted me.

Guyana has recorded its fourth coronavirus related death; nineteen confirmed cases and is projected to see fourteen hundred cases.

The energetic co-founder of the Reliance Healthcare Group, Jermaine Ifill described himself in his LinkedIn profile as “ambitious and open-minded, honest and kind,” someone who loved travelling and working.

Basdeo Panday, former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, came to the funeral of Cheddi Jagan in 1997, and I was delegated to chaperone him.

Just a few weeks ago it was possible for Trinidad’s Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley, to indicate in a major speech, that the Caribbean as whole had a potentially very bright future as a major western hemisphere oil and gas supplier.

By  Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – We live now in the post-virus world.

You, Mr President, are a Churchman, you believe in God the Supreme, the Creator and Destroyer and those who would delude themselves that they would live forever, must realize that when that day comes, you can’t take a single thing with you – you come in this world with nothing and you leave with nothing and all that is left is what you have done for the people on earth. 

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is professor, State University of New York, Empire State College.

Many are calling for a lockdown in Guyana due to COVID-19.

We are a people of long histories, short memories and limited visions.

– Concerning “Warrior-President” Volda Woe unto us in the middle these days.

On an usually quiet street in downtown Kingston, scores of ordinary Guyanese from all backgrounds, take turns each hot day and long night to closely watch over more than a dozen dingy shipping containers stacked high.

Last Saturday, 21st March 2020, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) made a statement to the press that suggests that after seven decades at the helm of politics and government in Guyana, it has learnt very little.

There are three supreme organs of democratic power in Guyana: The Parliament which is made up of the President and the National Assembly; the President; and the Cabinet.

The Caribbean is about to experience a crisis of a kind that no one in the region or anywhere else in the world could have predicted.

By the International Assembly of the Peoples and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

I am not sufficiently convinced that the results of the Region 4 elections as declared by the GECOM RO last Thursday (March 5th) accurately reflect the results recorded on the various statements of poll collected from the 879 polling stations…I have a difficulty accepting that all the persons and organizations who have so far deemed the process to lack credibility have somehow gotten it wrong…If our election results are as widely rejected as they appear likely to be, then there can be no winners.

Thoughts about the end of the world have troubled my mind over the last couple of weeks.

In the wake of our still unraveling political crisis, the peace of mind we’ve been struggling to retain is now being threatened by the increasing danger of the world’s most recent pandemic.