This article examines the main provisions of the 1833 Abolition Act and the British Guiana Ordinances stemming from this Act and argues that the rules of the apprenticeship experiment and the record keeping and legality strategies contained therein were hinged on physical coercion, punishment and social and economic control to ultimately ensure the survival of the plantation economy and its attendant society in the post slavery period.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
In a highly sensationalized article, Sun, Sea and Murder, the Economist magazine focused on the alarmingly high (and growing) incidence of violent and drug-related crime in the Caribbean, referenced the deadly rampages in Guyana and observed that Jamaica enjoys the dubious distinction of having the highest murder rate in the world.
What do you think of the current security arrangements in Bartica and the surrounding area?
BERLIN – Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights.
This is a Friday I wanted to use as time-out. To do a “cop-out” from the stress and challenges of these Guyana times.
Introduction As in almost every area of human endeavour, women also have a minuscule presence in positions of real power and decision making in religious leadership.
Berlin – NATO needs a new strategy. We, five former Defense Chiefs of Staff, recently published a booklet containing proposals for such a new strategy, as well as a comprehensive agenda for change.
Friday Feb 22 6 pm: The 2008 budget is titled, “Staying the course”.
This view was expressed some time ago by former Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, who, at the same forum, made the point that a primary factor in the worsening crime situation in the region is that “we have lost our way because our core cultural values have been lost, exchanged instead for values originating extra-regionally.
To me is it no accident that the region now has a tourism based economy.
But the more important issue arising is, whether there was an appropriate apparatus available in the Caricom governance institutional structure, with the mandate to pursue the elaboration of a political/policy strategy for the consideration of governments; for the CRNM was seen as strictly accepting mandates, rather than assisting in the innovation of strategy.
It was the Hon Hubert Jack, then Minister without Portfolio, who, in an address titled “The Thrust into the Hinterland” in June 1970, said and I quote: “With our coastlands already crowded, with the need to develop the enormous resources of the Interior so as to maintain and improve the standard of living of our people, faced with the urgent need to establish communities in the Interior, if only to thwart the designs of those who cast envious eyes on our land, the people and Government of Guyana are now embarked on the challenging task of making the Hinterland truly their own”.
293-303. With one exception, all the genera and species comprising our visitors had already given me a contribution for my collection: what I still missed was the glorious flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) which in spite of every trick resorted to, never came within shot.
This week we sought the views of members of the public about the Lusignan and Bartica murders and what they think the government can do about the situation.
(This is one of a series of fortnightly columns from Guy-anese in the diaspora and others with an interest in issues related to Guyana and the Caribbean) The ringing telephone shattered the stillness of my Sunday morning reverie.
Be patient with me as I avoid “the larger picture”. You know – about National Security Plans, Stakeholder Consultations, Overseas Assistance, Root Causes.
This article was received from Project Syndicate, an international not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to hosting a global debate on the key issues shaping our world.
It is useful to assess each West Indies Test series in terms of its significance for the future of West Indies cricket, both the immediate and the more distant future.
Friday January 15 1.30 pm : It’s contained
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