Gold and diamond miners confront dictatorship
Look who they sent to Bartica to mollify the miners. In the history of politics, no country has produced such incompetent rulers. Except for the public sector managers who are not known for egregious policy-making, the three politicians who turned up in Bartica on Saturday to address the miners are disliked national [...]
BLAZING SADDLES
(In memory of my schoolmate Bernard Dulal-Whiteway) I spent the last three Sundays horsing around and though it was not exactly horseplay, I did not start entirely from scratch. I was actually helping a crew to videotape the horse races at Beaumont Park, St Kitts, the newest and most beautiful horseracing venue in the Caribbean. [...]
Feeding programme for nursery and primary schools welcomed
Dear Editor, It was pleasing to see pictures of school children making use of computer technology recently in the media as the Ministry of Education moves to computerize all schools nationwide. It is high time that the learning environment in schools become ones that are driven by information technology that can give our children (and [...]
Priya Mahase blends partial truths with malicious fabrications
Dear Editor, Since Priya Mahase chose to attack my character in her rant captioned, “IAC views Freddie Kissoon’s opinions as uninformed” (29-01-10), I request the space and opportunity to respond. The politically and ethnically well fed smugness that course through every line of Mahase’s missive is understandable, even while at the same time being nauseatingly [...]
False Advertising
Under the watchful eyes (not to mention the conditionalities of loan disbursement and debt forgiveness) of the IMF and World Bank, our economy has been “liberalised”. While we are still awaiting the promised deluge of foreign investment that were said to be contingent on that liberalisation, it is very obvious that our local business class [...]
