Light and darkness, lips to life

Nov 09, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – The light that shines over Guyana must be at its dazzling purest. Not a speck of darkness on the horizon. Not a stray dark spot in the cupboard or under the carpet. When light is at its brightest, what chance for darkness to show its face, to linger? On the occasion of a national holiday, this is my thinking. From my absorption of the holiness that clutches at this land and its occupants, its practitioners, its sponsors, and its godfathers. God has to be happy with Guyana.

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The forces of darkness banished. From the Great House to the houses of the limping. When’s the last time a complaint, an objection, was heard from a holy man or holy woman of Guyana? Frankly, what is there to object over? Even more frankly, the holy ones have nothing to do, other than to turn their faces, to hold their noses, and to hold their tongue. They have gotten very good at all three. But when they look away, they run into their worst nightmare: what they don’t want to see. Not to acknowledge. It is the sum of their disappearing acts, their hypocrisies, how much their posturing has failed, the exposure of their disfiguring willful blindness. Because there is darkness in Guyana, and it is a monstrously evil presence. One from which even the forces of darkness stay far.