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General Elections 2011 are mere days away in Guyana.  They seem destined to be a momentous occasion, given the spate of cross-party “defections” and spirited campaigning by the now FOUR… Read more »

Hello and Woof-Woof to you readers of this column. Always trying something different, the columnist Mr Fenty has given me some time and space to share just a few thoughts… Read more »

The 2011 General and Regional Elections in my homeland Guyana loom.  Campaigns and things electoral are rather tame, orderly and peaceful. Thank Heavens for that!  Up to now… Beginning in… Read more »

For old timers born and bred in Guyana, especially in some rural countryside, river-rain or interior community, nighttime in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, Orlando or the Oranges HAS to be… Read more »

Hi old time Guyanese.  Have you all ever visited Kabakaburi, back in Guyana? That’s in the upper Pomeroon River, District of Region 2. Kabakaburi is a settlement situated on both… Read more »

So just WHAT is a superstition?  Definitions vary a bit but most indicate a credulity ( or  readiness to accept or believe)  regarding  the super-natural. An irrational fear of the… Read more »

Easter is upon us but Christian or not, we should all be sympathetic towards those afflicted with one of the world’s most devastating disease – scourges in recent history –… Read more »

Just a relatively light-hearted piece for TRAKKER fans during what might still be many folks’ vacation time. “Light-hearted” but with some serious undertones, considerations and implications of a psycho-social nature…. Read more »

To be frank and personal, I continuously ponder the phenomena of ethnicity, “belonging”,  cultural ties and  nationality. Consider that list of four with some care, and even interest.  I enjoyed… Read more »

TRAKKER invites the world’s tourists and other visitors to explore the ecological, best kept-secret that is the Greenland of Guyana. The only English-speaking State on the  North-Eastern shoulder of continent… Read more »