Guyana Review

It wasn’t that close. Indeed, five seats is a Goldilocks-zone majority.

An educator for over forty years, Hazel Moses has had a lifelong love affair with words.

By Karen Boman | ExxonMobil’s Liza discovery offshore Guyana could put the country on the map as a player in the global oil and gas industry, Wood Mackenzie reports.

Caribbean Airlines is a top regional carrier. It and other Caribbean carriers had the lowest load factor among airlines operating from their bases to and from the US in 2014.

Before she became a Minister in the current coalition government Simona Broomes had come to public attention as a crusader for reining in the vice of Trafficking in Persons (TIP).

So what is the big deal about the Caribbean Examination Council that it should want to have its history written?

After a third full week had passed without Samantha being able to raise enough money to buy what her son needed to start the new school year she had begun to wonder whether it was worth persisting.

The candidates speak.

Guyana Review poses key post-elections questions to APNU-AFC coalition presidential candidate David Granger GR: Setting aside hopes of unseating the ruling PPP/C, do you see the Cummingsburg Accord and the APNU-AFC coalition as the first steps in the direction of changing the culture of ethnic voting in Guyana?

GR: The most persistent public response to your selection as the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial candidate has been one of surprise.

GR: What we have witnessed in recent years – and more particularly in recent months – is the creation of new alliances amongst individuals and groups hitherto regarded as implacable foes.

A Presentation to Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute Anti-Corruption Conference Hilton Hotel, March 20th 2015 A few weeks ago, Justice Gillian Lucky sentenced two men to jail terms, one for 10 months for drug trafficking and the other for 5 months for shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm and robbery.

A Perspective It took but a matter of days after President Donald Ramotar had made public the date for the holding of general elections for the country to realize that Bharrat Jagdeo would be the ruling Party’s engineer-in-chief in its bid for yet another term in office; and as the days went by it became clear that Mr.

By Carrie Gibson  Review by Chris Hartman, February 23, 2015      Carrie Gibson’s thoughtful and extensively researched Empire’s Crossroads is a revelation.

What a great honour this is!  This is one of the great Clubs of the world!

It took half a dozen or so attempts before her shaky legs eventually carried her to the other side of the street, to the side where a handful of boisterous young men were drinking beer and tossing rude remarks at passing teenaged girls who were mostly grinning in response, as though the lewd remarks that were being flung their way they were fulsome compliments.

By Leon Walcott During the last ten years several events occurred that positively changed the landscape for persons living with disabilities in Guyana.

By Elson Browne-LowMuch has been said about young voters’ role in the May 11 general and regional elections, and as the recent student strike at the University of Guyana has demonstrated, young people have become frustrated with the hand that they are being dealt as Guyana moves forward.

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