Jul 14, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – I marvel at the spectacle of this country. Institutional and political grandeur. One that involves holding pattern, timing pattern. Just like the nerve-wracking work of air traffic controllers. I urge my fellow Guyanese: the sequence, study the sequence. There’s the rich story. It was deadly. It’s also a beauty, with proper regard for family.

March 2021: a man executed in the street. Cold. Calculated. Within a stone throw of the official residence of Guyana’s chief governor. A man with a young family; guests usually assembled, milling around. A lethal shooting that outraged, a slap on Pres Ali’s face. It happened in the too-close-for-comfort vicinity of Main Street, didn’t it? The president didn’t seem too anxious. Perhaps, the frenzied ecstasies of the bruising 2019-2020 elections still burned brightly. Unready to cool amid the celebrations.