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Almost exclusively of East Indian descent, the mostly older Guyanese men, on a popular site, openly bragged about voting, with their families, for incumbent United States (US) President Donald Trump.

In about 2012, after lambasting the ‘Cadillac lifestyle’ of the PPP/C regime, focusing upon the salaries, pension and other tax free benefits to which former presidents were entitled, the opposition in the hung parliament that resulted from the 2011 national elections sponsored and passed a resolution in the National Assembly calling for substantial reductions in those benefits and promised to make its recommended changes if it ever came to government.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Beyond the major headlines surrounding the US presidential election, a little-noticed development is attracting attention both in India and among American campaign strategists.

A few days ago, the US Ambassador in Kingston, Donald Tapia, gave an exclusive interview to the Jamaica Observer.

In last week’s article, we referred to the sad state of public accountability at the beginning of 1991.

By Troy Thomas Troy Thomas is former president and a current member of Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.

The police are responsible for enforcing the law. They work to ensure our safety and to maintain the peace.

Denial of justice has long plagued this land. It is no strange occurrence for human atrocities to be committed, ride the waves of our collective consciousness before fading out of memory.

“Infect?” In a medical/health-care context to infect means to contaminate (especially with some disease or “some disease-producing matter; as in communicating pathogens.”)

Some of my favourite memories are of magical moon-lit nights with no electricity, when the white rocky orb would slowly rise in the east, above the multiple rows of triangular rooflines silhouetted against the shaded sky.

Given the decades-long effort by governments to effectively organise and use the talent, finances and other resources of the Guyanese diaspora, my attention was recently drawn to an October 2020 study, ‘The Guyanese Diaspora’, done by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which provided some good information, comments and recommendations that should be of interest (https://csis-website-prod.s3.

By mid-November, the outcome of the saga of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will be known.

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – The ferocity of the 2020 presidential election in the United States is not about Donald Trump per se, but about what he represents: the racist structures of power that have persisted in America for centuries, though sometimes in mutated form.

In last week’s article, we referred to the appointment of the nine-member Public Accounts Committee (PAC) following the convening of the 12th Parliament under the new Administration.

By Lear Matthews Lear Matthews is a Professor at State University of New York.

Most of us have likely not experienced intolerable levels of hardship, such as trying to live in man-made swamps, resulting from lands being deliberately flooded with foul smelling water that could possibly cause disease.

Provocateurs! Exposing racism, promoting racism Even I, an untrained political analyst or hardly a trained qualified historian, would know that a very limited Op-Ed piece such as this would do no justice to even attempt a history, development and status of Guyana’s two political behemoths – the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC).

Access to land and housing has long been a bone of contention in Guyana.

Six days ago, the plain-spoken environmental activist Gary Aboud, 60, slapped on his cap and denim jacket, secretly boarded a small Trinidadian boat and did the unthinkable.

Desmond Hoyte was correct when in his 1980 ‘State Paper on the Re-organisation of the Local Government System in Guyana’, he claimed that the worst defects of the extant system were that it was not informed by a ‘coherent philosophy’, but his effort at local government reform demonstrated that adherence to a coherent philosophy such as liberal democracy, Marxism/Leninism or cooperative socialism, must also be rooted in an adequate understanding of the nature of a given society if it is to succeed.