Amid kite flying and creekside gatherings, Easter’s deeper call to reflection, sacrifice and renewal risks being overlooked.

Massy and Digicel customers vanish from databases, spotlighting Guyana’s wider private-sector service failures and bank contempt.

Beneath Easter’s kites and festivity lies a call to confront violence, intolerance and moral drift through reflection and renewal.

A government push toward digital grants and e-IDs collides with long queues, glitches and old civic dysfunction. The column also questions fresh talk of negotiating Guyana’s maritime boundary after an expected ICJ ruling.

Good Friday’s message of sacrifice, humility and mercy is cast as a needed antidote to Guyana’s bitterness and oil-fuelled excesses.

Georgetown’s drainage plan runs into a simple question: if the canal sits lower than the outfall, where does the water go? The column argues pumps mean little without open kokers, timing, and basic common sense.