Guyana Review

In the “Ethics of Advocacy” by Lord Macmillan is to be found this passage: “The code of honour of the Bar is at once its most cherished possession and the most valued safeguard of the public.

If a panel of experts were to be required to name the ten Guyanese sportsmen who have accomplished the most in their respective disciplines over the past 25 years, the inclusion of the name Ransford Goodluck on that list would almost certainly be automatic.

Something quite significant happened in local football recently. The Georgetown Football League (GFL) secured a court injunction that brought a halt to the Guyana Football Federation’s (GFF) plans to elect a new executive.

Presidential candidates’ perspectives? Following the naming of Attorney-at-Law Khemraj Ramjattan and retired Guyana Defence Force Brigadier David Granger as presidential candidates for the Alliance for Change and the People’s National Congress Reform the Guyana Review has secured interviews with the candidates which are published in this issue of the newspaper.

Great societies grow out of the sacrifices of visionary leaders who stand up to fight against historical injustice.

Lest we be tempted to think that we are alone in our seemingly unending continuum of bothersome revelations arising out of President Bharrat Jagdeo’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, we may – or perhaps not – be comforted to know that the President’s CARICOM colleague, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar had to face her own demons last year arising out of accusations of bribes and kickbacks or what is commonly called ‘influence pedalling” at Hewlett Packard, the same United States company that secured the  TT$83m allocation for the provision of 24,000 laptops for students entering secondary school at the start of the current academic year.

2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) March 3, 2011 Guyana A.

By Professor Gordon Shirley One of the challenges the university faces is that the model of service to the region has to be adjusted to meet the realities of our times.

Following is an edited version of an address by Justice Roxanne George at the 44th Convocation of the University of Guyana delivered on November 20, 2010 As graduands of the University of Guyana, you have had the opportunity of studying your chosen fields in the context of Guyana in a globalized world.

Is El Dorado “the lost city of gold” in Guyana? Is El Dorado “the lost city of gold” in Essequibo, the Cinderella county of Guyana? 

By Miriam Williams Gender-based violence is a broad topic that requires focused attention on the most affected by this phenomenon.

Nicholas Laughlin on reading Martin Carter while following the Egyptian revolution For most of the past eighteen days, I’ve kept Al Jazeera’s website open on my laptop and Martin Carter’s poems close at hand.

We may not have expected the West Indies to lift the 2011 Cricket World Cup but the manner of their loss to Pakistan will long linger as a painful embarrassmentHaving tiptoed shamefacedly into the quarter finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup the West Indies team wasted no time in conceding that they really did not belong in the auspicious company of the other seven combatants who had earned their places through consistently solid performances or else, like England, had clawed their way back from adversity to arrive in the hall of qualifiers safe if more than a trifle breathless.

This is an election year with a difference…actually, several differences. By now, in previous election years, it would have already been patently clear who the presidential candidates for the major political parties were.

It appears that the remark by President Bharrat Jagdeo regarding his government’s disposition to either facilitating or actually executing the arrest of Suriname president Desi Bouterse made during the opening session of the conference of officers of the Guyana Defence Force was not meant for the ears of the media.

The past year or so of cricket in Guyana has been one of woeful underperformance on the field and fierce conflict and crisis in the board rooms of its administration.

Over the next few issues the Guyana Review has agreed to publish a succession of three articles by General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress Lincoln Lewis on public issues of his choosing.

Over the past 20 years, Caribbean education has been through several reforms and changes, most of which have sought to address perceived deficits or problems in the system.

By Cleveland SamQuestion Where is the best place to meet people?

By Earl Best It wasn’t going to be the worst of teams but it also wasn’t likely to be the best of teams.