Stabroek News - Daily Guyana News
Custom Search
By Andre Haynes | Sunday, October 19, 2008 | 26 Comments
Nandlall: `It is a desperate measure and in the eyes of the government crime in Guyana has reached
desperate proportions’
The government’s controversial wiretapping bill had a …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, October 18, 2008 | 75 Comments
A contentious law that will sanction wiretapping as a tool in the fight against crime was passed in the National Assembly last night after a …
By Andre Haynes | Friday, October 17, 2008 | 53 Comments
Video testimony bill also passed
Three bills, green-lighting the use of audio-visual links to take evidence, plea bargaining and paper committals to strengthen the criminal justice …
By Andre Haynes | Friday, October 17, 2008 | 23 Comments
Fearing the defilement of Diwali observances, a group of Hindu organisations have issued a public call for the National Diwali Committee to rename and reschedule …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 0 Comments
Between the hits and misses at the just concluded Guyana Fashion Weekend 2008, Melessa Payne was perhaps the only constant. The 23-year-old model undoubtedly owned …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, October 11, 2008 | 0 Comments
1. Accolade: The Music Awards of Guyana
The voting was supposed to begin this week, when the public would be given its chance to rectify some …
By Andre Haynes | Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
Day 3: Mirrors
and reflections
Over the last few years, Olympia Small-Sonaram has earned quite the reputation for herself, built on barely there creations and a flair …
By Andre Haynes | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 5 Comments
Day 2 – Man, I feel like a woman
1. There is a God and he must be a Trini
After a lacklustre opening night, Sonia Noel …
By Andre Haynes | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 3 Comments
Local gov’t reform still on slow road
After nearly three months the task force on local government reform is yet to resume its work, putting the …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, October 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Last week when organizers announced the revival of the Miss Diwali Pageant, they were hoping for at minimum a spark of public interest in what …
By Andre Haynes | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 8 Comments
Cartoonist Hawley Harris, whose consolatory wit poured from his pen during the country’s darkest years, has died. He was 77.
Hawley Harris
Harris died of complications from …
By Andre Haynes | Thursday, September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
Indigenous leaders from the Amazon Basin yesterday opened a meeting to frame an agenda to push the recognition of rights and sustainable growth for communities …
By Andre Haynes | Thursday, September 18, 2008 | 10 Comments
On Wednesday, September 10, officially Amerindian Heritage Day, a small group of people made up mostly of students converged at the Umana Yana for a …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, September 13, 2008 | 0 Comments
The new Morgan Heritage album, ‘Mission in Progress,’ casts the band as the would-be saviours of roots reggae. Admittedly, not an easy task, and so …
By Andre Haynes | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
The past haunts the present in The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree, Guyana’s signal dramatic presentation which premiered on Friday evening, at the National …
By Andre Haynes | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 0 Comments
The past haunts the present in The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree, Guyana’s signal dramatic presentation which premiered on Friday evening, at the National …
By Andre Haynes | Friday, August 29, 2008 | 1 Comment
The weapon of choice for the region’s cultural revolutionaries, ‘Rapso’ flies in the face of those all too eager to proclaim the oral tradition dead.
Brother …
By Andre Haynes | Friday, August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments
Almost fifty titles, including fiction and non-fiction works by several of the regions leading writers, will debut at CARIFESTA.
Over seven days, new and reprinted works, …
By Andre Haynes | Saturday, August 16, 2008 | 0 Comments
Caribbean identity to make the cut at film festival
Three dozen pieces for screening
A glimpse into the future perhaps, the CARIFESTA Film Festival will survey the …
