Battered as we are; hundreds of thousands of our countrymen in optional voluntary overseas exile; and with decades of our development delayed and denied primarily through political selfishness, do we dare to hope during this beginning of another People’s Progressive Party (PPP) national tenure?
At one point in our history, sugar served as the crown jewel of Guyana’s industries.
The upbeat Chief Executive Officer of the “young and growing” Guyana-based timber export company promised logs and lumber in “any quantity” and of “the best quality.”
Sometime between now and the next five years, Guyana will have to embark upon constitutional and more specifically electoral reforms.
A huge section of the Milne Ice Shelf, the last of Canada’s intact ice shelves located on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, has collapsed into the Arctic Ocean, creating an “ice island” about 30 square miles in size, larger than that of the area of Manhattan.
By G. J. Giddings Dr. Jahwara Giddings is Professor of History at Central State UniversityIt is always a good time to reiterate Guyana’s food traditions, practices, and prospects, and to emphasize the power and potential of good food in general.
Last Update: 616.80 Movement: 0.00% Current Update: 616.80 YTD Movement: 1.78% The Lucas Stock Index (LSI) remained unchanged during the first period of trading in August, 2020.
The election process finally concluded last Sunday with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic being declared the winner.
The world according to Buxtonian David One could easily imagine – and/or appreciate – the “tons” of commentaries, since Sunday, in print and “on air”, surrounding the emergence of the Irfaan Ali Presidency.
The abrupt conclusion of Guyana’s prolonged election crisis evolved swiftly last Sunday, with the swearing in of the ninth Executive President Mohamed Irfaan Ali, 40, the country’s first Muslim Head of State.
On the day the elections results were declared, many Guyanese breathed a sigh of relief.
Here we go again, a change from one ethnic government to the next, and we expect better results when, by its very nature, such a transfer of power does not have the potential to deliver national unity and equitable social progress.
Whether it chooses to take sides or not, the Caribbean is about to find itself swept up into the now almost inevitable superpower confrontation between the United States and China.
The Granger administration and its allies continue to defy the will of the Guyanese people by refusing to accept the vote count.
By Melanie J. Newton Melanie J. Newton is an Associate Professor of History and the former Director of the Caribbean Studies Program at the University of Toronto.
Black Lives Matter murals were painted this week on streets in Berbice, Bartica and Georgetown.
As true slips of the tongue, it was hardly along the lines of the American politician, who resigned following evidence of tax evasion, or like the quip about dictatorship from the 43rd President who gave the world “Bushisms.”
Tomorrow we celebrate the end of chattel slavery, the day our ancestors were emancipated from an inhumane system that should have never existed.
– My usual three Emancipation “mischiefs” Wonder what did yesterday come up with?
On my assessment, given its legal context, President David Granger’s statement that he will accept nothing less than the counting of the broadly defined ‘valid votes’ of the March 2020 elections to arrive at a winner threatens to take the elections quarrel to another constitutional/unconstitutional level.
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