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- October 13, 2024
PERHAPS we were always closer to our pre-historic ancestors than we thought. Most likely, it was intruding moments that enabled us to discover kindness …
Barrington Braithwaite
- October 6, 2024
IT seems to be a normal thing to have plastered on the pages of newspapers ‘portraits’ of young men who have died of violent …
- September 29, 2024
A COLLEAGUE recently suggested that Standard English should be our first language. There is what may be interpreted as a duel between Creole and …
- September 22, 2024
I WASN’T brought up in the age of TV. Though my generation knew that television existed, we were loyal to the cinemas and the …
- September 15, 2024
RECENTLY, the co-operative movement was in the air, mentioned fondly by the current Minister of Labour, and it raised memories, some of which I’ve …
- September 8, 2024
I WAS invited and aware of this author’s visit and the event at the Theatre Guild. However, based on some advice from a colleague …
- September 1, 2024
My godparents who raised me always allowed me to read the Sunday pull-out of Flash Gordon, Mandrake etc. that was designed for the young, …
- August 25, 2024
THE reluctant Emancipation was not an ideal blessed by the plantocracy that held power over the colony. Even the appointed Governors were subject to …
- August 18, 2024
THE consistent conflict directed at the emancipated African community in British Guyana by the sugar planter community that held the colony’s authority in their …
- August 11, 2024
THE post-Emancipation villages were constructed to facilitate the very systems that worked in the interest of the Afro-communities from the inception of slavery, and …
