Allan, Being Frank

Admittedly, this piece was prepared for another journal, but I feel strongly that it should be shared with TRAKKER’s readers. I’ve persuaded myself to make this two–cents contribution to the…

No I don’t want to, nor can I ever, put any damper on this wonderful, now all- pervasive festival of celebration of the Christ-Child’s Birth, the Christian Festival NEARLY EVERY…

So why should there be winners or losers when Guyana’s Election Polling Booths finally close this Monday night? After all you don’t have to be actually IN a new government…

Yes there HAS been a worry about certain categories of criminal activity recently.  And it is because Guyana’s population is relatively small compared to TRINIDAD, BRAZIL, JAMAICA, COLOMBIA, BRITAIN, THE…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…