Ralph Ramkarran

The headline and the three paragraphs below are direct quotations from a report in the Stabroek News of April 14, 2021.

In 2010, I wrote an article on the overseas vote in which I argued that the Constitution of Guyana permitted all Guyanese citizens over the age of 18 to vote.

A tall and big African-American man, George Floyd graduated from high school and attended college on sports scholarships for several years before dropping out.

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Joe Harmon, has lamented the neglect by the Caricom Secretariat and its Chairman, Prime Minister Keith Rowley, of acknowledging his letters requesting their mediation of the current stalemate between the Government and Opposition.

Allan Price, now deceased, lived abroad but owned a portion of land in Queenstown which, by definition, is “immovable property.”

In 1918-1919 the flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, saw 500 million people, or one-third of the world’s population, become infected.

The spectacle displayed by the APNU+AFC in Parliament during last week signals the PNC’s return to the Opposition.

These words were uttered by one of our male Members of Parliament to a female Member when she was talking about cars being purchased by the Government for Ministers.

By Ralph Ramkarran Guyana holds a special place in China’s diplomatic history.

The public is hardly interested in the details of budgetary explanations and analysis and for many like myself, I find going through figures to be sheer drudgery.

As is to be expected, a complete reorientation of US-Guyana relations took place with the visit of then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in September last year.

Dictators have long thrived on the ignorance of the people. That is why the quality of a democracy can always be judged from the access to information that it allows.

Triggered by the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 18, 2020, upholding the Court’s jurisdiction to determine the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award establishing and defining the border between Venezuela and British Guiana, Venezuela has predictably escalated its threat to Guyana’s sovereignty.

In a letter to SN of January 13 Dr. Kwesi Sansculotte-Greenidge pointed out the necessity and possibility of a political solution to Guyana’s ethno-political problems through constitutional restructuring.

It is difficult to avoid the shocking events of Wednesday last in the United States of America.

By this time, the year of the half person would have passed.

The International Court of Justice (World Court) ruled on Friday last that it has jurisdiction to entertain Guyana’s application with regard to the dispute concerning “the legal validity and binding effect of the award regarding the boundary between the colony of British Guiana and the United States of Venezuela, of 3 October 1899.”

The letter published by Mr. Raphael Trotman in yesterday’s newspapers is worth reading.

Yesterday’s online edition of SN contained four separate articles about oil, the most important of which were reports of speeches by the Canadian High Commissioner and the United States Ambassador.

The PPP/C conceded and promptly departed from office in 2015 without a recount of votes in some challenged areas.