By Gerald V. Paul So Eyesers, guess what? The Eyes guy was invited by Guyana Goldfields’ President and CEO Scott Caldwell to visit Guyana and witness the latest construction progress on the Aurora Gold Project, in Region Seven (Cuyuni-Mazaruni). Yes, I’m looking forward to it, having covered the Guyana-Brazil border with former prime minister Sam […]
By Gerald V. Paul World-renowned neurologist and bestselling author Oliver Sacks has learned he has terminal cancer. “I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential,” he said. “I must focus on myself, my work, my friends. This is not indifference but detachment. “I still care deeply about the […]
By Gerald V. Paul Many moons ago by Guyana’s Botanical Gardens – with more than just trees shaking in the wind – a young lady shouted across the road: “You got de ring. I got de ting!” Well, ting-aling-aling. Stop the press. Alliance for Change (AFC) party tied the knot with Alliance Party for National […]
By Gerald V. Paul So, Eyes covered Bob Marley Day at Toronto City Hall with the call of founder / lawyer Courtney Betty for economic empowerment during Black History Month. Visualize a goal. Believe it. Go for it. But business/money must never become your god, your foundation. You must have a higher calling, a desire […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyes met a young, beautiful and brilliant lady with CSIS at the Black History Society’s launch of Black History Month and, guess what, Eyesers? She is of Trinidad and Tobago heritage. Cool / Uncool? Hey, spy on me … please. Ent? On a serious note, last Sunday was the Nelson Mandela […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyesers, Dr. Mary Anne Chambers’ keynote address on Self-Empowerment at the Black History Month launch was also a clarion call for the church to continue to be engaged in the community. She delivered her speech to a standing ovation Sunday at Metro Toronto Convention Centre for the Ontario Black History Society’s […]
By Gerald V. Paul Here’s the sad news, Eyesers: a mere one percent of the world’s population will own 50% of the world’s wealth. By the way, the top one percent of Americans controls some 40% of that nation’s wealth. Go figure. Increasing poverty and widening gaps in developed and developing countries between the “haves’ […]
By Gerald V. Paul Welcome to our newly minted Editor Brad Savage. The meeting of the minds: mainstream and community journalism. Yes, he’s the guy of white hue or pigmentation in these days of mere Black and white, us and them. The question is can / may we all get along and get a life? […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyes Live will be a series of Through Our Caribbean Eyes columns covering the region, a continuation of my extensive and intensive work there and even working in South Africa as a journalist and missionary. First stop? Guyana. Here Eyes will re-establish our Caribbean Camera Bureau contact, plus the Rev. Gerald […]
By Gerald V. Paul Eyes reached into the ‘Rev. Gerald V. Paul Library’ and reflected on Dr. C. Peter Wagner’s On Earth as it is in Heaven: Answer God’s call to transform the world. A missionary who served in the Caribbean and South Africa, theologian and author of 70 books, Wagner referenced the Lord’s Prayer: “Your […]
