Conversation Tree

Law Week, sponsored by the Guyana Bar Association (GBA), is yet another innovative and imaginative effort by the legal profession to highlight and promote the importance of law and a law-based society in Guyana.

A robust debate has been triggered by Guyana’s Local Content Act (the Act) between Guyanese and Trinidad and Tobago business organisations, businesspeople and involving some Guyanese public officials.

The visit of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Barbara Feinstein, to Guyana, and her wide-ranging discussions, mark an important step in the evolving relations between the US and Guyana.

The Soviet Union, of which Russia was the dominant part, like the United States, has played an important role in the politics of modern Guyana.

The theme of the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Annual Police Officers Conference, held during last week, was “Promoting improvement of public trust and confidence, maintaining safety and security through competence, professionalism and partnership.”

Civil society began to attain prominence about fifty years ago as non-state actors outside the political and business communities.

Russia’s long-expected land, sea and air invasion of Ukraine on Thursday last is to be condemned.

The spectacular possibilities that await Guyana were revealed at the recently concluded oil and gas conference.

Cynthia Nelson has fascinated Guyanese for over a decade and a half with her “Tastes Like Home” articles in Stabroek News.

Mudwata, still defiantly profane and homophobic, is back, daring the authorities to find him and ridiculing their arrest of Keron Bruce.

The crisis which emerged after the Russian deployment of troops on its border with Ukraine in recent weeks has led to diplomatic discourses between the United States, Russia and NATO.

The editorial of Stabroek News and the letter by Clement Rohee in yesterday’s edition provide two of the most excellent tributes to the late Yesu Persaud that have been written.

Trends have emerged in Guyana where political parties, principally the PNCR, sometimes define their responsibilities as relating to only those who they ‘represent’ or their ‘supporters’ or who ‘voted for them,’ even though, as Government or Opposition, they are expected to represent the interests of all Guyanese.

Trends have emerged in Guyana where political parties, principally the PNCR, sometimes define their responsibilities as relating to only those who they ‘represent’ or their ‘supporters’ or who ‘voted for them,’ even though, as Government or Opposition, they are expected to represent the interests of all Guyanese.

Rihanna, the Barbadian singer, became popular with the song ‘Umbrella,’ released in 2008.

On this first day of the New Year I wish my readers, the readers of SN and all Guyanese, a joyful day and a successful 2022.

Aubrey Norton, newly elected leader of the PNCR is only ‘odd’ in the sense that he survived at or near the leadership of the PNCR for near thirty years, despite falling out with all the leaders under whom he served – Desmond Hoyte, Robert Corbin and David Granger.

It is not a simple matter to write about the PNCR.

On Wednesday December 8, SN published two letters by Professor Tarron Khemraj and Dr Baytoram Ramharack with the following headlines: “We cannot fully explore US strategy towards Jagan without considering how deep Jagan was embedded in the Soviet orbit” and “Soviet style Marxism-Leninism became like a religious conviction for Jagan and led to catastrophic repercussions for the country.”

Dr. Baytoram Ramharack is a leading protagonist of the view, held by a section of educated Indian Guyanese opinion, that Cheddi Jagan was a plantation idiot.