New Year resolutions

Jan 07, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

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Hard Truths by GHK Lall

(Kaieteur News) – I made several New Year’s resolutions.  Social media, here I come.  FB, Instagram, YouTube.  May even try my hand at a TikTok or two, if only to keep Drs. Ali, Jagdeo, Nandlall attentive and active.  If the man from WIN can use social media, so can I.  I can’t be that daft, and allow the world to pass me by, not see for myself how the dark side of Guyana works.

The second resolution involves the PPP Govt; Drs. Ali, Jagdeo, again.  I mentioned to some editors in early December that the plan was, come January, I was going to take it easy, write 4-5 articles weekly, and restart with the two unfinished manuscripts in the pipeline.  Better make that three, since the gold sector must be spotlighted.  So that my PPP followers don’t get any ideas, slowing down, not hanging up gloves.

Then, the PPP spoiled everything, prompted me to revise the original plan.  Blame the PPP of Ali and Anil.  Down to the Haags-Bosch dumpsite that plan went.  And it is all due to the burning hatreds the glorious PPP leadership have for one citizen.  One Guyanese who passed the mandatory retirement criteria of both local and foreign agencies.  Here is a consideration for Guyana’s top lawman.  The more that the workers, hired hands, and mercenaries aim at me, the more the names Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Mohabir Anil Nandlall, and Bharrat ‘Dr. Chief Investigator’ Jagdeo will come into play.  I reassure everyone: whatever has to be done will be done respectfully honestly, frankly.  Now look at what they went and did.  Instead of semi-retirement for me, I now have to work weekends and holidays.   That is more than an intended New Year’s resolution that crumbled.  It’s Old Year’s Night celebrations running wild.  My chats will address PPP champs’ hypocrisies, denials, failures.  No juniors.

New Year’s resolution number three involves going and working with my second favorite batch of people.  Not with any subcontractor, but on an Exxon oil rig.  If Dr. Jagdeo could find the skills to work with/for Mr. Alistair Routledge, then there is complete confidence in possessing needed skills to advise Mr. Exxon Guyana.  Some Guyanese do wuk fuh Exxon on the sly, collect the people money, then deny.  Or try to pull other fast ones.  Me, I already have my hand openly outstretched.

The fourth resolution for 2026 is of three parts.  There is the WIN people, the PNC, and the Amanza Walton-Desir team.  On the one hand, the temptation is to give the PNC a pass, in a spirit of holiday charity.  The group took a horrible beating in September, and it is only three months later (nobody in Guyana lifts a finger to do anything in December, so that long month of celebration is scratched).  The PNC is in new territory with new faces and a new leader, new visions and new strategies.  Much work to do.  The other side of that formula is, maybe, the PNC has already passed out of contention.  Or, here is a grim possibility for Guyanese -the PNC has passed over to the PPP side of matters in Guyana.  Word is that those aisles are even more well-stocked with rich stuff these days.  I’m rethinking aligning with Exxon; more rewarding to do business with brothers Ali, Jagdeo and Ashni.

Next, WIN has to stop thinking and behaving as though it’s bipolar.  That is, one pole called Guyana, the other clutching a boarding pass to America.  Somewhere between 109k-110k eligible Guyanese voted for Azruddin Mohamed.  I don’t think that Mohamed got any of those fancy votes snatched by the PPP.  Doubtful that those WIN people still nursing brutal hangovers this late.  Make them count, make their voices heard, make their disappointments register.  If those 100,000 plus Guyanese can’t be engaged, then surely, 25,000 could be inspired.  Into this fray, I escort Ms. Amanza Walton-Desir.  Here’s the message to all three-WIN, PNC, and FGM.

Get off thrones, get going.  Ease off sophistications re constitution, legislation, who avoids confrontation and decision (parliament).  Opposition visions backed by strategy must be a mixture of the parliamentary, judiciary, cyberterritory, and road territory.   Lessen Facebook, increase the road.  The PPP owns parliament, judicial sections.  Social media has considerable pluses.  Nothing beats boots tramping.  The street can’t only have prime value, be primetime, before elections!  Get some sense, people.

My resolutions -one developing, the second crumbled (PPP-influenced), last ones warming up.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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