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Amerindian Heritage Month was opened with the usual fanfare by a befeathered President Irfaan Ali, who addressed the Indigenous gathering as he would any coastal group.

How to run a country 

In his column in Kiskadee Watch on September 3rd under the heading `How to run a country’, international civil servant and former University of Guyana Chancellor, Dr Bertrand Ramcharan invoked the philosophy of Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero.

The memory of repression

Guyana is at an uncomfortable intersection in its history. There remains a generation of Guyanese who, whether as children, teenagers or adults during the period stretching from the 1970s into the early 1990s, remember what they still describe as the “Dark Days.”