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UNDER this particular theme of convenient amnesia, I alluded to the stringent efforts being made by APNU/AFC to have Guyanese forget the atrocities the PNC unleashed on the nation when it kept itself in government through electoral fraud. But that’s just the overarching sum of what took place. The details of the harsh realities would […]

HERE’S a tragic irony of our Guyanese body politic: in the era of free and fair elections, we saw two terms of office for Government cut short, with a hostile Opposition triggering both terminations; while, incredibly, in the era of rigged elections dictatorship, lasting 28 years, Guyana never once saw a single term of office

IN the news not so long ago, Sony Pictures, the movie-making arm of the multimedia giant has been defeated by hackers who attacked the company’s servers, releasing embarrassing e-mails and sensitive information on the Internet. The hackers have forced Sony to stop the release of a film which features the assassination of North Korean leader,

MIDWAY through the election campaign Israel’s leading satirical TV show, Eretz Nehederet, came up with a new take on the man who has dominated the country’s politics for the past 20 years. Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu, it suggested, was cursed as a child to be Israel’s prime minister for eternity. His only chance to break the

A vote for APNU-AFC (PNC-AFC) is a vote for the PNC. How so? The AFC has not learnt well from history. The AFC fails to acknowledge, whether intentionally or not, that the PNC’s (PNC and APNU are pretty much the same entity) track record on the notion of ‘coalition’ is one that is manipulative and

MUCH of what was said in previous instalments can in many ways be summed up to definitively pronounce that the combined Opposition in the form of APNU+AFC, is seeking to extract pre-1992 memories from Guyanese.

POTSALT want fuh know if something happening in de alliance that others ain’t know about. De other day at de business people fancy lunch at de PeagSUCKS, David holler and seh that he speaking only on behalf of Palm Tree PNC Party which is de Hands-Up Party. He mek it clear is only half of

FRAYS and fractions show up everywhere, in every organisation and every society of human beings: people seem prone to disagree, to become disgruntled, and to descend to divisive behaviour.

POTSALT did talk about some people who suddenly doing abrupt about-turns. Sometime back, de Alliance man who own de PegaSUCKS mek plenty noise and condemn de Marriott. He even get he boys, RumJ and Nagga, fuh mek more noise fuh stop de project. Dem seh de country ain’t ready fuh a Marriott. Imagine dem who

POTSALT read de other day that de Leader of de PNC/AFC alliance, David, seh that he gon be challenging de Top Cop appointment. De challenge is because he seh Uncle Donald didn’t consult he. He mek plenty noise and everybody know when that Party mek noise bout challenge, what it mean! People hoping is just