The PPP and PNC have practised personality politics to their own detriment

by Emile Mervin
Much has been written in recent weeks about the leadership of the PNC, but rather than construe the many letters as attacks on the party’s leader, Mr. Robert Corbin, I think the collective voices were merely aiming to get the party to either radically change its approach to politics or continue to fossilize, [...]

Is this just another form of ethnic cleansing?

by Keith R. Williams
There is something ominous in the Minister of Home Affairs singling out of a particular segment of the population for special attention in Guyana’s so called robust War on Drugs. Particularly when that segmented group identified by the Minister, to wit, unemployed young people, will be comprised of large majorities of African [...]

Bishram is Being Selectively Judgemental

by Keith R. Williams
In a Stabroek News Letter to the Editor published on April 8th, Vishnu Bishram laments the decline of Moral Values in Guyana and South Africa based on incidents he is aware of where people stood by in apathy while others were victimized:
It is reprehensible to read about how the family was robbed [...]

The Parable of the Good Samaritan

by Keith R. Williams
In the Gospel according to Saint Luke, Chapter 10 verses 30 to 37, Jesus used the “Parable of the good Samaritan” to illustrate the context of the Christian tenet of “loving thy neighbor as thyself”. The coincidence of circumstances that link the story he told to those in his audience, with the [...]