By Gerald V. Paul Eyes is working on covering the sixth Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference 2015, convened by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade from June 13 to 18 at Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James. The keynote address will be delivered by the prime minister of Jamaica – for this conference […]
By Gerald V. Paul “When I said in the PNC strongholds there is a miracle happening on voting day some said James, no, it’s the coalition (APNU / AFC). I want to say it again, THE PNC IS ALIVE AND WELL … Forbes Burnham would have been proud … Long live PNC,” posted lawyer James […]
By Gerald V. Paul Come May 11, Guyana’s PPP and PNC (APNU / AFC) will go to the polls and it’s forward, ever. Backward? Never! As the Eyes Guy was penning this column, a book came into our office, God Help the Child by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a searing tale on how childhood trauma […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyesers, while the APNU / AFC – more like the Alliance – cover for the old People’s National Congress, PNC, the majority in the APNU mix were doing their Toronto hook-up, whispering sweet nothings at Elite Banquet Hall recently, their comrade in arms James Bond (not the white spy) called the […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyes is joining Haitian Foreign Minister Duly Brutus and the Consul General of Haiti Dr. Eric Pierre in calling on Dominican officials “to respect the fundamental rights of every Haitian in the Dominican Republic.” Stop this inhumanity to man, in the name of God! Stop this evil as we denounce the […]
By Gerald V. Paul As a boy, I bore witness to my beloved mother Rose experiencing domestic violence in my Mother Guyana. “Help! Help me,” my suffering mother cried. “Help son … Help!” I stood helpless. Stunned. Transfixed in time. And did not go to my mother’s rescue. Helpless to help. Lord, have mercy. So, […]
By Gerald V. Paul Oh, oh, a wah story dis or is it, allyuh hear story, nah. Eh, eh. Eyesers, the co-campaign manager of the coalition of strange bedfellows of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Raphael Trotman sounded a bit boyish (childish?) regarding former president of Guyana Dr. Bharrat […]
By Gerald V. Paul Guyana’s APNU/AFC Leader David Granger said recently, “I am not Burnham.” That’s as in Forbes Burnham, called in Dr. Arthur M. Schlesinger’s A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House an “opportunist, racist and a demagogue.” Cheddi Jagan was infinitely preferable but they went with Burnham. And the rest, […]
By Gerald V. Paul The current construct by the neo-cons (Reform- / Heritage-rooted political thought police) is being used as a wedge issue – it’s not the economy, stupid. It’s about Muslim head gear and safety in a dictatorship, oops, democracy and the question becomes, is this something new or have we, as Canadians, been […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyes spent the weekend doing a re-read: The West on Trial, My Fight for Guyana’s Freedom by Dr. Cheddi Jagan, a founding member of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and Morning After by Eusi Kwayana, a leader – he prefers elder- of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), both from my library’s […]
