Think on That

Tears of Mocha

A country where the scales are balanced, and therefore all are treated with respect – can we say that we live there?

Sad

There was a story on social media this week about an employee attached to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs who is based in Region 9.

We call ourselves civilised

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.

A consumer affair

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.

Do our rivers crave human life?

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.

Garbage issues

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

When the talented ones live

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.

When wounds bleed

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

The Maafa today

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

Where are our brothers and sisters’ keepers?

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).

Why should we mourn?

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

Speak up

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.

The time is now

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

Criminal influence

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

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