Technology alone cannot fix low-discipline road culture
The Safe Road Intelligent System (SRIS) has changed the rhythm of our roads almost overnight. Since April, nearly 42,000 speeding and other violations have...
The country everyone is watching, but no one can measure correctly
I saw this report in The Telegraph, published last Monday, which claimed that 48% of Guyana’s population live on just £4 a day (about...
Yes, to transformation, but what are the measurables?
By Abena Rockcliffe
Commentary about the President and Cabinet Ministers visit to Tiger Bay last weekend was almost ubiquitous. Everyone had their two cents to...
Creation brings power, power requires responsibility
Throughout history, people have often been both the creators and the victims of their own ambitions. Time and again, whether in literature, in history,...
Who will replace Azruddin Mohamed if he cannot serve?
By Kemol King
With Azruddin Mohamed facing 11 charges of corruption and fraud in a Florida court, that could carry a prison term of up...
Please, give me an iota of reason to kill, the obvious mood in that...
Some 2,424 years since the death of one of the world’s most revered philosophers, society is still struggling with the principles he upheld to...
Territorial integrity and human integrity, both are worth preserving
He was my greatest adversary, and sadly, we never became friends. Travis Smith (not his actual first name) bullied me for years during my...
The necessity and convenience of redistributing state ads
By Kemol King
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government has signaled plans to redistribute state advertising, aiming to give online news outlets a fairer share...
The way Jagdeo’s words live rent-free in my head
By Abena Rockcliffe
Saving an eventuality where dementia steps in, I would never forget those words spoken by Bharrat Jagdeo back when he was opposition...
Is Guyana the modern-day realization of Dickens’ “Coketown”?
In early 19th-century Britain, the Industrial Revolution was at its peak. Steam engines powered an economic boom the likes of which the world had...
