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By David Granger | Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 5 Comments
Had it not been abolished in 1975, the Queen’s College Cadet Corps which was founded in 1889 would have celebrated its 120th anniversary this year. …
By David Granger | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
When it comes to colonial governors, many are reviled and few are admired. Their achievements if any might be acknowledged only grudgingly and anniversaries of …
By David Granger | Sunday, February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General, famously remarked a decade ago “You can do a lot with diplomacy but, of course, you can do …
By David Granger | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 5 Comments
The rebellion that erupted forty years ago on Thursday, January 2, in the Rupununi District has been the single most serious threat to the national …
By David Granger | Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 14 Comments
Born in controversy in 1974, the Guyana National Service was dismantled in controversy in 2000. Today, the debate seems never to have gone away.
National Service …
By David Granger | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 4 Comments
As Dave Martins’s popular, patriotic ballad “Not A Blade of Grass” pervaded the airwaves to find acceptance as Guyana’s second national anthem, the sonorous slogan …
By David Granger | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 7 Comments
Radicals regarded it as their ritual duty to yell “Limey go home” on encountering British soldiers in British Guiana in October 1953, fifty-five years ago. …
By David Granger | Sunday, October 5, 2008 | 0 Comments
The First World War (1914-1918) changed the course of human history in significant ways. For over 700 loyal British Guianese officers and soldiers who voluntarily …
By David Granger | Sunday, September 7, 2008 | 0 Comments
Vaccination schedules
One can extract from last week’s Pet Corner that there is no correct vaccination protocol. Below, I will be discussing some options that are …
By David Granger | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 8 Comments
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Onlookers at the Guyana Police Force’s169th anniversary parade last July must have been astonished at the sight of some Britishers in typical beachcombers’ …
By David Granger | Wednesday, September 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
Guyana’s periodical press has survived through resilience and resourcefulness for over two centuries. This was so in part because Guyana’s polyglot population, most of whom …
By David Granger | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | 0 Comments
Shridath Ramphal and the art of diplomacy
Richard Bourne (ed) Shridath Ramphal: The Commonwealth and the World. Essays in Honour of His 80th Birthday. London: Hansib …
By David Granger | Thursday, August 28, 2008 | 0 Comments
It was Barbados in dance but it looked more like the poetic story of a few gifted beings unfolding on the stage at the National …
By David Granger | Sunday, August 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
No single event so signified the vulnerability of the small states of the Caribbean as the catastrophe wrought by Hurricane Ivan on the island of …
