Guyana Review

Some festivals of the Caribbean All nations celebrate sacred or secular festivals of one sort or another.

I  did not  know Folklorist Wordsworth Mc Andrew personally.  I knew his narratives and later his poetry, especially his immortal’Old Higue’.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul’s accession to the top of the pile in the International Cricket Council’s best test batsman ratings takes its place beside CARIFESTA as a fitting tribute to the capacity of the Caribbean to achieve.

Historian Tommy Payne reflects on the origins of the Caribbean Festival of Arts and the reverberation of the inaugural event across space and time The song released for CARIFESTA X embraces the sentiments of pride, responsibility and determination.

Our revels now are ended.  These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And like the baseless fabric of this vision .

Carifesta… and so on By Ewalt Ainsworth Carifesta is about pan.

The Caribbean Community and the global food frenzy Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries really ought not to have found themselves  caught up in the current global food frenzy that has spawned gloomy  predictions of widespread starvation  unless the international community takes action now to increase food production significantly over the next decade or so.

Security sector reform and the Guyana Police Force Tuesday 3 December 2002 was an ordinary workaday morning at the start of the Christmas shopping season in Georgetown’s central business district.

Global action on mercury to project human health and the environment – WWF views Rickford Vieira, WWF-Guianas Regional Goldmining Pollution Abatement Coordinator, February 2008 Between 2001 and 2007, UNEP Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (UNEPGC/GMEF) held several meeting to discussed the issue of global mercury use and human health and decisions were taken to further develop UNEP’s Mercury Program by initiating and disseminating a report summarizing supply, trade and demand information on mercury.1 Another decision requested that governments, the private sector and international organizations take immediate action to reduce the risks posed on a global scale in products and production processes and that further long term international action was needed to reduce the risks.

Schomburgk’s travels through British Guiana (An extract from Schomburgk’s expedition to the interior.

The Forestry Sector and the WWF Guianas Sustainable Natural Resources Management Programme Stabroek Business has agreed to publish occasional features submitted by the Office of the World Wildlife Fund in Guyana that address environmental and other critical issues in the mining and forestry sectors.

Juanita Cox is a PhD student writing her thesis: ‘Edgar Mittelholzer and the Shaping of his Novels’ at the University of Birmingham, UK. 

When the Sun and Streets Exploded Part 1 Calypso and World Politics Converged in British Guiana, 1962 By Geoffrey Dunn And I was with them all, When the sun and streets exploded, And a city of clerks turned a city of men.

David James is an Amerindian, an Attorney-At-Law and an informed, passionate and articulate advocate of the rights of the indigenous peoples of Guyana.

Lewis and the New World Economists This is the second of a lecture delivered by Professor Norman Girvan on February 20 at the UWI St Augustine campus to launch the year of Sir Arthur Lewis in commencement of the Caribbean’s first Nobel Laurette.

By Barrington Braithwaite To fully give an informative and honest description of the position of any discipline, requires a case study plus the variables and conditions that influence positively or negatively the results of the particular study in question.

By Juanita Cox Juanita Cox is a PhD student writing her thesis: ‘Edgar Mittelholzer and the Shaping of his Novels’ at the University of Birmingham, UK.

By Brendan de Caires C.L.R. James: Cricket’s Philosopher King, by Dave Renton (Haus Publishing, ISBN ISBN 78-1905791019, 192 pp) Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R.

During his terminal illness several years ago I had a conversation with the late Aubrey Williams.

Saluting the distinguished career of Linda Griffith People like Linda Griffith sometimes never really get their fair share of either recognition or reward for their selfless and unstinting contribution to nation-building; and people like her never seem to stop to measure the magnitude of their contribution against the paucity of the reward.