AN ELDERLY MAN BUT WITH FAR MORE BAGGAGE THAN A POOR MEMORY

Reading between the lines of the reports coming out of the recent engagements between US Government officials and the Arab community in Michigan, it is clear that President Biden has lost a large section of Arab American support. Listening to the political debates in the US about relative support of the presidential candidates, it has […]

HOUSE LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES AND GUYANA

Most Guyanese welcomed the meeting between the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), led the House Democratic Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and the delegation from the Guyana Government.  The statement of the CBC said that it had a productive meeting and discussed energy and food security, regional economic prosperity, and economic stewardship. The strength of the bilateral relationship […]

BLINKEN’S VISIT

The visit to Guyana of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is an indication of the growing importance of Guyana on the international stage. This importance is a by-product of Guyana’s bourgeoning, petroleum-based, economy which will soon place Guyana as the largest petroleum producer per capita in the world. This, however, means little because with production at 1 or […]

THE BLOWING UP OF THE NORD STREAM PIPELINES

Seymour Hersh is a prominent US investigative, Pulitzer Prize winning, journalist. He has claimed in a recently, self-published, article on Substack, “How America took out the Nord Stream Pipeline,” that US Navy divers destroyed three of four Russian gas Nord Stream pipelines under the Baltic Sea last September in a CIA operation ordered by President […]

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, 2009, and resisted the mob that violently stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2020, to overturn the election results. President Biden said that history will “remember […]