For the foreign service to fulfill its mission of promoting friendly relations, fostering conditions for economic development and protecting the country from adversaries it must find its way out of the wilderness of mediocrity and return to the path of professionalism.
Feature address by the RT. Hon. Owen S. Arthur, M.P. former Prime Minister of Barbados at Rotary World Understanding Day Dinner Pegasus Hotel georgetown, Guyana February 27, 2009 In reflecting on his very many crises, Richard Nixon was moved to observe that: “You do not become the finest steel, until you have gone through the hottest fires.”
Big companies should not be allowed to run small countries By Professor Norman Girvan The drama over the CL Financial debacle continues.
How will President Bharrat Jagdeo’s ten-year tenure of office be remembered?
The following is the text of an address delivered by Sir Courtney at a tribute held in honour of Dr Trevor Farrell by the Economics Department , UWI, St Augustine on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008.
By Dr Didacus Jules The Caribbean Examinations Council has embarked on a process aimed at producing and implementing a strategic plan for the next three to five years.
Consociationalism and Governance in Guyana Edited by Rishee Thakur Institute of Development Studies, University of Guyana A review by Christopher RamThe immediate reaction of the reader to the topic Consociationalism in the Guyana context would be one of at least mild surprise, if not boredom.
Kyk-Over-Al, one of this country’s oldest and most respected literary journals, first appeared in December 1945 and sold for one shilling (24 cents).
When compared with what has been accomplished in much of the rest of the Caribbean there is no doubt that the development of sport in Guyana has failed to match that of other countries which are, neither economically or in any other respect, better positioned to create a strong national sport infrastructure.
The controversial Annual United States State Department Report on Human Rights Practices around the world has come to be regarded in some quartets as an index for measuring the political preferences of the world’s most powerful state rather than as a reliable ‘report card’ on respect for human rights in those countries that are assessed.
The annual United States Department of State Report on Human Rights Practices usually triggers selective interpretation and hype from the state media and angry reactions from the Government of Guyana.
As President Bharrat Jagdeo prepares to celebrate the tenth anni-versary as Guyana’s longest-serving head of state, the manner in which he selects and rejects persons to fill the seats of power in the cabinet will determine the destiny of the country.
A muted but intense rivalry is raging between Guyana’s two telecommunications service providers The arrival of DIGICEL in Guyana two years ago after the company had, more or less, swept aside most of the competition in the rest of the Caribbean, heralded the dawn of a brand new era in national telecommunications.
President Bharrat Jagdeo came to power nearly 10 years ago. What public safety lessons can be learnt from the extraordinary events that occurred during the most dangerous decade in this country’s history?
Opening address by his Excellency Edwin W Carrington, Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community, on the occasion of the Ministerial Conference on Security, Drug Trafficking , Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism as challenges for development in the Caribbean, 19 February 2009, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
2009 marks the 30th year since the Caribbean Examinations Council offered the first ever indigenous examination to students in the region.
The following is the text of an address delivered by Sir Courtney at a tribute held in honour of Dr Trevor Farrell by the Economics Department, UWI, St Augustine on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008.
CARIBBEAN ECONOMIC RECESSIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ADDRESS by PROFESSOR COMPTON BOURNE, PH.D,
The African-Guyanese The British Guiana Centenary Year Book, 1831-1931, edited by E Sievewright Stoby, was published in 1931 to celebrate the centenary of the unification of the colony of British Guiana in 1831.
Mendonca’s Legend of The Swan Children is one of six new novels in the prestigious Macmillan Island Fantasy Series.
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