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“THEY began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over,” as Lewis Carrol put it in Alice in Wonderland. He was describing the Caucus Race, but it sounds quite a lot like the Gaza War, doesn’t it? What’s different is […]

PULL QUOTE: “But even as the AFC awaits the impending parliamentary turmoil to win the day on this motion, its no-confidence proposal is akin to Shylock’s demand for a pound of flesh from Antonio; Shylock’s motive for demanding this pound of flesh had to do with Antonio’s capacity to lower the interest rate in Venice

The Kaieteur News has once again demonstrated in full regalia, why it is the grand media of sensationalism , among its sister CARICOM  media houses as  it sought  once again to mislead the Guyanese public on the matter pertaining to Bai Shan Lin’s logging activities in Guyana.

It does not matter what you look like, where you live, what your job is or who you support politically, once you dare to have a progressive mindset and want betterment for your family, community and country, you will be savagely attacked by the opposition’s pit bull.

OLD Kai is not surprised at the ignorance, either deliberate or otherwise, displayed by the Kaieteur News and, of course, its ‘doll house’ partner, the political opposition, in regard to our forestry sector.

WITH all the talk we have been hearing recently about the global financial crisis, and the measures being taken on the international as well as national levels to make sure that billions of dollars are saved or at least are not wasted, I have seen little about managing money on the individual or household level. 

-thoughts on PPP’s warning and GECOM’s assurance… IT HAS been a long time since a major party in Guyana opted to go public with the serious claim of “electoral padding” of the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) compiled by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for new national elections.

SOME ordinary folks believe that the combined Opposition AFC/APNU no-confidence proposal is a joke. They believe that the no-confidence vote triggering a general and regional election will not change anything because of a possible recurrence of the same electoral equation in Parliament. And there is the view that AFC and APNU in Parliament should devote

THE New Jersey Arya Samaj Humanitarian Mission (NJASHM) which has been active in reaching out to combat social ills engulfing Guyana, particularly Berbice, are now engaged in addressing the issue of suicide with the aim of eradicating or reducing the problem to a minimal level.

IT’S not really “China’s Chechnya” yet, but the insurgency in Xinjiang is growing fast. Incidents of anti-Chinese violence are getting bigger and much more frequent. Since March 176 people have been killed in six separate attacks on Chinese police and government officials, local collaborators and ordinary Chinese residents of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in northwestern