Think on That

We call ourselves a civilized nation yet over the holidays the garbage rotted in the streets because for three weeks and counting the garbage collectors have not been seen in some areas.

Senior citizens carry this nation on their backs, like a burden they can only unload in death.

Recently I saw a Consumers Affairs Commission ad. It was released in December 2020, but I had never seen it before a few days ago.

Some may say that there is something sinister happening in Guyana’s waters and that it may seem as if water spirits are calling for human sacrifices.

What will it take for the garbage issues in Georgetown and other parts of the country to be resolved?

Last weekend, I saw Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Like the first movie, it explores African cultural and spiritual practices and is also inspired by the Aztecs.

Late afternoon by Bourda, the market was closed but the pavement was busy.

Mobile phones with cameras are some of the greatest inventions of our time.

Since 2020 when the mutilated bodies of Isaiah and Joel Henry were found, their relatives have been standing on a bridge over troubled waters.

October 12 is African Holocaust Day or Maafa Day. Maafa is a Kiswahili word meaning great disaster or tragedy.

By the busy Stabroek Market area where buses wait for passengers and a police outpost stands, last week Friday a gang attacked nineteen-year-old Samuel Grannum who was a student at the Government Technical Institute (GTI).

September was an eventful month. The air was filled with jubilation but also tragedy and mourning.

Fishermen are the latest group to receive cash grants from the government.

The end of the seventy-year reign by Queen Elizabeth II triggered a global response as was to be expected.

Last Monday, I was in Kitty when I observed a Kitty-Campbellville minibus, already overloaded, pick up three more passengers who were too willing to join the disaster-on-wheels waiting to happen.

Perhaps we are tired of the accounts of Guyanese women who have been murdered by the hands of the men they loved.

A story appeared in the news this week that a social media personality is being accused of drugging and raping a young man.

In this dreamland of Guyana where rivers flow and the lands are rich, we have not only cultivated promises and possibilities of a great country, but a society where most people are docile and insane enough to sit and watch the death of a nation.

The theme for ACDA’s Emancipation Festival 2022 was “Celebrating the enduring African spirit through cultural expression” and the sub-theme is “Realizing the Guyanese dream through community economic empowerment.”

There was a motion by the Opposition to discuss the rising cost of living, but the Speaker of the National Assembly Manzoor Nadir withdrew the motion.