Guyana Review

What’s there to celebrate?
What’s there to celebrate?

Sport…The malignancy of failure

As this article is being written the West Indies is yet to play its final game in the 2015 instalment of cricket’s most prestigious tournament.

On the international stage: President Donald Ramotar addressing the United Nations General Assembly
On the international stage: President Donald Ramotar addressing the United Nations General Assembly

On a global stage

Address by His Excellency Donald Ramotar, President of the Co-operative Repub-lic of Guyana at the General Debate of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2014 in New York Mr President, Mr Secretary General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I wish to congratulate you, Mr.

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves.

What Caricom is not

By Dr Ralph E. Gonsalves (edited version)   The current status of CARICOM can be characterized by the twin and dialectically-connected processes of consolidation and progress within the terms of CARICOM’s design as crafted in the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas of July 2001 and the subsequent decisions of the Conference of Heads and of other Treaty institutions.

Seeking Reparations for Slavery
Professor Hilary Beckles

Making the case for reparations

Address delivered by Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, House of Commons, Parliament of Great Britain, Committee Room 14, Thurs-day, July 16, 2014 Madam Chair, the distinguished member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott, other distinguished members of the House of Lords, and House of Commons, Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corp, colleagues at the head table, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Joshua Griffith

University under pressure

Guyana Review talks with newly elected President of the University of Guyana Students Society Joshua Griffith GR: Yours has been an inherited position since you were elected Vice President rather than President of the UGSS.

Sweeping his way to a big score

Shiv on the shore

Courtesy of The Cricket Monthly from ESPNcricinfo   By Rahul Bhattacharya   One day Khemraj “Cowfly” Chanderpaul got vexed.

The leader arriving for the Congress

Talking shop

Edited Address by Brigadier (rtd) David Granger, Leader, to the 18th Biennial Delegates’ Congress of the People’s National Congress Reform at Congress Place, Sophia, Georgetown on July 25, 2014.

Astell Collins

On leadership

Guyana Review talks with youth leader Astell Collins   GR: When you look at the various challenges facing Guyana how do you see your own ideas on leadership making a difference?

Ian McDonald

The Edge of Night

By Ian McDonald   Watchman by the seawall koker twenty years I met him on my walks seawind and sunset I see recalling him.

Part of the action

The Caribbean Premier League

After two seasons of the Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament, this particular version of the game is still on trial in our part of the world.

We vote then we step aside

Our splendid democracy

Things have not been the same since the general elections in November 2011, though, as Guyanese would say, the outcomes – or at least the majority of them – were hardly anything to write home about, anyway.

Bridging communities?

Two nations

By David A. Granger Hinterland Guyana comprises over three-quarters of this country’s territory.

Irwin La Rocque

Implementing decisions: ‘The Secretariat is not CARICOM’

Once I had read and re-read Dr Ralph Gonsalves’s address to the opening of the Twenty Fifth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government it was inevitable that it would be set aside for publication in this issue of the Guyana Review.

Talking media

Capitol News Director Enrico Woolford shares his views on media issues with the Guyana ReviewGR: When you think of media freedom what do you consider to be its key elements?  E.W:

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