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Vestiges of socialism

In response to a complaint by Dr. Terrence Campbell that higher wages and salaries by government and foreign companies are attracting workers away from local businesses which cannot compete, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo responded that “people want the vestiges of socialism still to hang on…” (Dem Waves Jan 9).

Defenders of democracy honoured in US, not in Guyana

On Friday last President Biden presented the Presidential Citizens Medal to 14 US citizens – policemen and civilians – who resisted attempts to undermine the elections of November, 2020, and resisted the mob that violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, to overturn the election results.

The Muslim State of ‘Ali Irfaan’

Former Prime Minister and Mayor Hamilton Green, writing in one national newspaper on December 15, suggested that Guyanese should not be surprised if Guyana is renamed the ‘State of Ali Irfaan.’

Sarah-Ann Lynch

The Ambassador of the United States of America to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Her Excellency Mme.

Jailing or threatening to jail lawyers

The news that a lawyer was “temporarily remanded…over his failure to submit promised evidence…[and] spent a few minutes in the holding area for prisoners on Wednesday” (SN September 30) is indeed disturbing. 

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