Due Process and the Presumption of Innocence

by Keith R. Williams
DUE PROCESS AND THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE ARE LEGAL ENTITLE MENTS TO BE ENJOYED BY ALL, NOT PRIVILEGES TO BE DISPENSED TO A FEW
I agree 100% with the remarks of Steve Hemraj:
“I have been following the reports regarding the manner in which the PPP handled the two attorneys that represent persons charged [...]

Our National Motto must be more than an Anecdotal Expression

by Keith R. Williams
No one has ever been able to come up with a definitive non partisan/non pandering across the board reason as to why people commit horrible and atrocious acts. However, there are a plethora of inconvenient truths that are associative with every variety of human upon human horror imaginable. For example the worse [...]

Crisscrossing Ethical Fences

by Keith R. Williams
The ever prolific cheering section for everything done by the Guyana Government proceeds to advance a litany of points, ostensibly to demonstrate that the response of the Stabroek News to the withdrawal of Tax Payer funded advertisements from that periodical by the Government, was unjustified. What is demonstrably apparent in the position [...]

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 [...]