Guyana Review

25 years of legal abortions Reprinted from T&T Review, March 3, 2008 By Sanka Price As a politician there are some issues that no matter what decision you make, you are certain to anger a significant segment of the population.

Yes, he did! This is the first of a lecture delivered by Professor Norman Girvan on February 20 at the UWI St.

The Government of Guyana was gratified at the outcome of the recent special meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government on crime and security held in Port-of-Spain which set out to design a regional strategy to stem violent criminality in the Caribbean.

The inaugural Hugh Desmond Hoyte memorial lecture was delivered in Georgetown by Rt.

Allan Fenty reflects on the life and times of one of Guyana’s revered cultural icons.

I thought that our cricketing sentimentalists could at least have been afforded a requiem for Bourda, some dignified tribute to bring closure to those whose sense of cricketing history have left them with a deep understanding of Bourda’s service to test cricket and of what we must now leave behind; there could have been some grand or even less than grand ‘sendoff,’ some occasion for reminiscences and reflections on Bourda’s past glories, its unique place in this region’s cricketing history. 

The essence of Paul Harris’ consummate skill as a cartoonist derives from his appreciation of the unique role of the cartoon as a vehicle for communication.

Once again, feuding between Guyana’s two major political parties is proving a major obstacle to a cohesive response to a national emergency As much as the two recent shocking mass murders at Lusignan and Bartica have cast a pall of gloom over Guyana, the responses of the country’s political leaders to these appalling crimes have added much insult to the injury inflicted by the killers.

VEGETATION AND SPECIES COMPOSITION Mangrove forests in South America are found on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the bays and estuaries of eight countries.

Nothing to shout about Guyana Review publishes the main body of the US State Department’s 2008 Inter-national Narcotics Control Strategy Report on Guyana.

News of the recent arrest of three Guyanese ? Isaac Sarjoo, Richard Sarjoo and Roy Arjune ?

(an extract from Schomburgk’s expedition to the interior. The work was translated from German by Walter E.

Remarks of Senator Barack Obama at the Constitution Center on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy.

Hafeez Khan is a diminutive, animated busybody who has never graced a boxing ring in his life.

In three short weeks two heinous crimes in which twenty-four people in communities as distant as Lusignan and Bartica were brutally murdered have focused the nation’s attention on the stark reality of a deeply troubling domestic security situation The administration’s agreement to establish a special select committee on the Disciplined Forces Commission Report in the National Assembly must have been an embarrassing admission of its sloth and weakness.

Sitting behind her desk at the East street office of the Postal and Telecommunications Workers’ Union (PTWU) Gillian Burton appears thoughtful rather than intimidated.

Seventh Installment The Dutch regain control By this time the tide was flowing completely in the Dutch favour.

Section 221(g) and 212 of the INA outlines the general basis upon which the Consular Officer at the US Embassy may determine whether an applicant is ineligible to receive a visa.

From the start of the international debate on the issue of climate change at least two sets of views have been proffered.

244. Mrs Arrindell having given me to understand that for, some time past, a pair of alligators were lurking in the draining trench immediately behind her fowl-coop, to the serious detriment of its occupants not only my curiosity to watch these voracious gentry at close quarters but also my fondness for hunting would allow of no rest until I should lay the mischievous brutes in triumph at her feet.