Ian on Sunday

You gave me gifts, God-Enchanter. I give you thanks for good and ill.

It is a blessing that the rush to the precipice halted just in time to save West Indies cricket.

Not many Guyanese, I am sure, think about it but we have a National Trust whose high and shining objective is to preserve the national heritage.

Ian On Sunday Whenever you hear that a Committee has been set up, reach for your worry beads.

If you can, every now and then it is good to escape the reality which you have settled into.

Ian On Sunday In any given situation we assume that people, including ourselves, will act sensibly.

Ian On Sunday Towards the end of life – and when you are seventy-six and counting you are not very distant from the end – you become more reflective.

Think of libraries! There are all kinds and degrees from the smallest village library to the great libraries of the world.

Ian On Sunday At thirteen, I think it was, I was reading love poetry.

Ian On Sunday Having retired a couple of years ago after 52 years in the sugar industry, including working closely with governments and regional institutions along the way, if there is one thing I have learned it is the extreme frailty of all grand plans.

Ian On sunday In 2007 as many as 20,000 politicians, officials, international functionaries, journalists and activists attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, better known as the Bali Conference.

Ian on Sunday I cannot escape the terrible feeling that such pitiless cruelty goes beyond brutality and mad violence.

Ian On Sunday A man is murdered, a woman beaten and raped, a child horribly abused, a business robbed, a home terrifyingly invaded.

Ian on Sunday What distinguishes human beings more than anything is their use of language.

Ian On Sunday Love of sport is woven into the fabric of my life.

Ian On Sunday Modern man has miraculous powers. He flies to the moon and soars beyond the sun.

The extraordinary value in everythingAll my life I have had an urge to preserve the extraordinary value of everything that I experience.

Ian on Sunday Why this glaring discrepancy between prowess in the short versions and generally abject failure in Test cricket?

Meteors How is a great poem created? It is a mystery.

Ian On Sunday Education is important not simply for the implantation of specific information about specific subjects but, perhaps more importantly, for the passing on of a whole ‘culture’ of learning, attitudes, and behaviour – a variety of distinct ‘languages’ of understanding including self-understanding.