Don’t fear data centres
By Kemol King
The debate over data centres is no longer something happening only in the United States.
Here in Guyana, proposed data centre developments have...
Chess on pause, snakes and ladder in full swing
By Abena Rockcliffe
Politics is a business. Campaigns and governments can be seen through the lens of investment and returns. In business, consumers tend to...
We all cannot have the luxury of negotiating with truth and what’s right
“If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don’t Want to Be Right” must have been a remarkably provocative piece of its time. It was written...
Guyana is getting richer. I’m not sure that is enough
By Kemol King
Guyana is getting richer. I know this because almost every economic indicator tells me so.
I see it in the construction happening around...
Social correctness has us in a chokehold
By Abena Rockcliffe
I was in the company of some good friends when CXC results were released a few weeks back. There I was, stuck...
Even when consumers are blamed, the breadcrumbs lead back to policies and those who...
By Citizen X
"If it looks like cow dung, smells like cow dung and behaves like cow dung, then it must be…” Dior Savage?
That, in...
The fox and the grapes
By Kemol King
There is an old Aesop fable about a fox who spots grapes hanging from a vine.
The fox wants them, but they are...
The cause is bigger
By Abena Rockcliffe
Buju Banton’s “Close One Yesterday” is a work of art, especially lyrically. One of the lines that resonate deeply with me is,...
Reactive governance will ruin us, time to revisit lessons from the ancestors
"Make hay while the sun shines.”
“Strike while the iron is hot.”
These are just some of the invaluable proverbs bequeathed to us by our foreparents...
‘Political’ is not a dirty word
By Kemol King
In the two weeks following the disaster that befell the MV Barima, citizens have organized vigils, protests and calls for accountability. This...
