Guyana Review

Several men might run for the presidency in the general elections due in 2011 The race for the presidency is bringing out the serious and the devious in political parties and civil society alike.

The United States Department of State disseminates three annual reports which the Government of Guyana never fails to repudiate The Government of the United States, through its Department of State in Washing-ton, DC now under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has become the Govern-ment of Guyana’s recurrent nightmare.

Can CARICOM deliver a paradigm shift in food and nutrition security?

An amnesiac generation reawakens the pioneering spirit of its dead ancestors By David A Granger No month more than August evinces the patterns of challenge and response in the annals of the African-Guyanese experience.

Suriname’s new president Désiré  Bouterse seeks to alter his image from one of military strongman to that of civilian statesman Former Master Sergeant Désiré Delano Bouterse ruled Suriname with an iron hand as its military strongman after staging a coup d’etat almost exactly 30 years ago in 1980.

African-Guyanese, despite two centuries of enslavement, were able to create a distinctive creole culture By David A.

Responding to key challenges in the education system Following our interview with Education Minister, Hon Shaik Baksh in the April issue, The Guyana Review continues its examination of issues in the development of the national education system.

From Emancipation to Independence… and beyond The village of Plaisance, situated between Better Hope and Goedverwagting on the East Coast Demerara was purchased by 65 newly freed African slaves in the immediate post emancipation period for the princely sum of $39,000.00.

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the death of Forbes Burnham, the first Prime Minister and Executive President of Guyana Forbes Burnham belonged to a talented generation of Guianese born in the decade of the 1920s.

By Orin Davidson Darren Collison, the son of Guyanese track stars June Griffith and Dennis Collison, is plotting his own path to the top of the world of sports…through basketball The Flatbush Bar exuded an unusual buzz one recent Sunday night.

Alliance for Change Leader, Attorney At Law  Raphael Trotman talks with The Guyana Review about the challenges and outlook of the party that seeks to enhance its national influence at the 2011 general elections On the Political Focus of the Alliance for Change The AFC is still a young political party.

It took Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee more than a week after the killing of 16 year-old Patentia schoolboy Kelvin Fraser to concede that the policeman who fired the fatal bullet acted improperly.

Is the PPP worried over a potential threat to its vaunted electoral advantage?

The Guyana Police Force should be professionally reformed and protected from political interference.

Désiré Bouterse’s success in Suriname’s elections was a history-making moment. The event, however, will open concerns about regional security and Suriname’s relations with Guyana.

Guyana-China relations have remained friendly for nearly forty years. Will they get stronger?

New Thriving, Georgetown’s newest and most elaborate Chinese restaurant, is still celebrating the first anniversary of their ‘return’ to Main Street. 

This year the eleventh in the series of William G Demas Memorial Lectures instituted by the Caribbean Development Bank was delivered on May 18, 2010 in Nassau Bahamas by yet another distinguished Caribbean academic, Jamaican-born Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Delaware, Patricia Martin-Deleon, The holder of a BSc degree in Natural Science (Hons) and an MSc in Medical Genetics from the University of the West Indies, Professor DeLeon earned a PhD from the University of Western Ontario, Canada and further post-doctoral accreditations at McGill University in Montreal.

Part 1 In an extensive interview with Guyana Review editor Arnon Adams published in the May 2010 issue of the newspaper, Education Minister Shaik Baksh alluded to an initiative being undertaken by the Ministry of Education which appears designed to upgrade the end-qualification of trained teachers through the reconfiguration of the traditional three-year Trained Teachers’ Certificate being offered by the Cyril Potter College of Education.

Amerindian influence on settlers The Amerindian people were the first inhabitants of Guiana.