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DEAR Lincoln Lewis, if you are going to keep insisting, like a broken record, that GECOM adopts biometrics in order to eliminate electoral fraud, then, for heaven’s sake, stop copying and pasting text from artificial intelligence apps and passing it off as your own! If you want an authentic election process, perhaps it’s a good […]

  IN recent years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has charted a new blueprint for building a China-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) community with a shared future, ushering the China-LAC relationship into a new era defined by equality, mutual benefit, innovation, openness, and people-centred benefits. Guided by head-of-state diplomacy, China-LAC trade and economic co-operation has

BY harping incessantly on biometrics, Lincoln Lewis has become the mouthpiece for an opposition that knows it simply can’t win against the PPP/C in a free and fair election. Having tried to steal votes in 2020 and failed, they are now insisting on biometrics as a panacea to a system that they themselves tried to

By Vanessa Cort IT is a subject that I have been forced to return to from time to time because domestic and gender-based violence continue to plague our society. What is more alarming is that even when women opt to leave abusive relationships they are still being stalked and attacked by their former partners. The year has

As I travel around the city on mini-buses, there is one theme that keeps popping up. People in Georgetown want to know what is happening with the government’s disbursement of the $100,000 cheques. The general consensus seems to be that Region Four will be left for last in the distribution process. Said one passenger on

IF Geeta Chandan-Edmond stands alone in an enlightened corner of the APNU+AFC rigmarole coalition, Christopher Jones appears to be counted among its ill-informed. A lot of crazy, laugh out loud bare-faced lies were spoken by coalition MPs during the debate over Budget 2025 in the National Assembly. However, Jones, the Chief Whip of the APNU+AFC,

IN an address to the Guyana Police Force (GPF) two years ago, President Irfaan Ali called for a “new standard of performance and professionalism.” Of course, this call is not limited to the Police Force but extends to those in our workforce throughout the country. Our falling standards have been a cause of concern for

OPPOSITION MP Geeta Chandan-Edmond is determined to make a name for herself, regardless of the toll it may likely have on her political career. That takes courage. Her unflinching support for Budget 2025 garnered mixed reviews in the National Assembly last Friday. Chandan-Edmond told the House that she had listened carefully to Dr. Ashni Singh’s

‘MORNIN mummy, wuh ya gettin?’ ‘Buy two bill shellotte hay mummy’, ‘Come mummy, buy a shopping bag – two hunnerd dollas’, ‘ De barrel come, get ya leggins, mummy’. These were the cries of the market vendors as I passed by Water Street one day last week. Laughing inwardly, I thought, ‘Well, I made nine

EPIC. Stunning, sweeping in scope and depth, something in it for everyone. I am not talking about Mufasa, the new Lion King movie. I am referring to Dr. Ashni Singh’s remarkable five-hour budget speech in the National Assembly two days ago. It was refreshingly brilliant on so many levels and for a mountain of reasons.