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With no other person able to speak the different languages of the Indian indentured immigrants on a notorious Demerara estate, the last remaining of two abusive interpreters was quickly pardoned by the Governor.

I do not believe that Guyana can avoid the curse that has afflicted so many resource-rich countries.

uMuntu ngumuntu ngabantu; Motho ke motho ka batho – I am because you are; you are because we are.

With the Easter season upon, we asked the man/woman in the street how they planned to spend their holidays.

By Nicole Burrowes Nicole Burrowes is an Assistant Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas, Austin.

At the start of the month, Barbados’ former Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, officially departed the island’s Parliament and elective politics.

Last week, Kwame Assanah, Dextroy Cordis and Errol Adams were killed by the police.

Introduction In this the 39th column I wrap up the comparison of the 1999 and 2016 contracts by looking at Annex D which is completely new in the 2016 Agreement.

-The haughty officer’s bag of bones I suppose that folks into their seventies and eighties experience two levels of behavioural responses to social events that they do not necessarily appreciate.

By Clem Seecharan Clem Seecharan is Emeritus Professor of History at London Metropolitan University.

Cheddi Jagan returned from studies in the United States to a British Guiana in 1943 that was a cauldron of poverty.

Cheddi Jagan was born on March 22, 1918, and died on March 6, 1997.

 By Sharief Khan (An excerpt from an interview with Sharief Khan reprinted from Stabroek News, December 11, 1987, page 5) In gaining a politician like Cheddi Jagan Guyana might have lost a cricketer.

By Miles Fitzpatrick (Reprinted from Stabroek News Souvenir Edition, March 17, 1997, page 7) Fate gave Cheddi Jagan only four years in office as President of Guyana.

(Reprinted from Stabroek News Souvenir Edition, Monday, March 17, 1997, page 10) The widow of the late President, Janet Jagan, has expressed regret that her hus­band did not have enough time to fulfil the many dreams he harboured for his country and its citizens.

(Reprinted from the Souvenir Edition, Monday, March 17, 1997) Tens of thousands of Guyanese from all walks of life converge on State House and at the Albion Sports Complex ground between March 8-12, to pay their final respects to the late President, Dr Cheddi Jagan.

One of just six women with spouses stuffed among a shipload of strangers aboard the “Hesperus” her name was anglicized to “Mollie” within months of their arrival in British Guiana (BG).

At the invitation of the Indian Action Committee, I attended a public symposium ‘Reflection on the life and works of Dr.

A joke making the rounds in Mexico says that President Donald Trump has become the de facto campaign manager of leftist populist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is leading in the polls for the July 1 presidential election.