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By Staff | Friday, October 10, 2008 | 0 CommentsLife’s lighter side…… -Some Stress-Relief Humour Just the light–heartedness, the levity amongst a group of us this past Monday night quickly decided for me that I must abandon the more “serious issues” today. We were at the Carifesta oasis,... Read more »
Thursday’s Cartoon
By Staff | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 0 Comments
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Ask the Consul
By Staff | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 0 CommentsNon-Immigrant Visas and HIV Installment Sixty-Seven The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a new Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Waiver Final Rule. This regulation will streamline the issuance of certain short-term visitor visas... Read more »
History This Week No.42/2008
By Staff | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | 0 CommentsThe Rise and Demise of Nationalist Politics in British Guiana By Dr. Mellissa Ifill This article gives a brief overview of the rise and demise of nationalist politics in British Guiana between the mid 1940s to the mid 1950s. In a subsequent article,... Read more »
The Indian exception
By Staff | Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 0 Commentsby Shashi Tharoor Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations. NEW DELHI – The ratification by the United States Congress of the historic India-US Nuclear Agreement marks a remarkable... Read more »
In The Diaspora
By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 0 Comments
The high artfulness of Hawley Harris In tribute to Guyanese cartoonist Hawley Harris, who recently passed away, this week we carry an excerpt from a longer essay by Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine. By Rupert Roopnaraine Caricatures adorn pharaohs’ friezes and... Read more »
Bailout blues
By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 0 CommentsKenneth Rogoff is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF. By Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE – Spend in haste; repent at leisure. With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style... Read more »
What the people say about
By Staff | Monday, October 6, 2008 | 2 Comments
Improving conditions for teachers Photos and interviews by Melissa Charles Sudesh Rampersaud, Painter: ‘Teachers are very important and to my knowledge they are not being treated fairly. They need better facilities at the schools they teach and more... Read more »
Tributes to Sir Shridath Ramphal on his eightieth birthday
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Introduction Sir Shridath Surendranath Ramphal, lawyer, foreign policy expert, international civil servant and writer, known as ‘Sonny’ to his family and friends, was born on October 3, 1928 in New Amsterdam, Berbice, to Grace and James Ramphal. Perhaps... Read more »
Ramphal reminiscences
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Edwin W. Carrington Secretary-General Caribbean Community (Caricom) The name of the Honourable Sir Shridath Surendradath ‘Sonny’ Ramphal, OCC is inextricably linked to the pursuit of co-operation, development and integration in the Caribbean, the... Read more »
Scholar, erudite jurist, orator and diplomat
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By P.J. Patterson Former Prime Minister of Jamaica No matter how close the sources or the length of their acquaintance, it still remains unlikely that the combination of tributes will encompass the full measure of the man. For Sir Shridath Ramphal,... Read more »
The Caribbean’s most successful international statesman
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Sir James Mitchell Former Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines I was a Minister of Trade, Agriculture , Labour and Tourism when I first met Sir Shridath Ramphal at a Carifta conference in Guyana in the sixties. He was then Sonny Ramphal. Sir... Read more »
A belief in collective action
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Vaughan A. Lewis, Former Prime Minister of St Lucia; Professor Emeritus, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago It is a pleasure to be invited to write a few words on the occasion of Sonny... Read more »
A man of ideas
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Rudy Insanally Former Foreign Minister of Guyana I am pleased to join in this public tribute to Sir Shridath (Sonny) Ramphal on the occasion of his eightieth birthday this year. Rudy Insanally Like so many of Guyana’s diplomats who had the privilege... Read more »
A formidable and well-deserved reputation
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Rashleigh E. Jackson Former Foreign Minister of Guyana The achievements of Sir Shridath Ramphal are legion; and he is widely respected for his enormous contribution to the promotion of understanding and agreement, regionally and internationally. ... Read more »
A life full of distinguished accomplishment
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Denis Benn Michael Manley Professor of Public Affairs/ Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus In the Caribbean firmament, no star shines more brightly than Shridath Ramphal’s. I have had the privilege of knowing Sir Shridath... Read more »
Outstanding achievements
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Bryn Pollard Former Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Guyana; Former Legal Consultant, Caricom It is a privilege and most pleasurable for me to be invited to make this contribution on Sir Shridath’s attainment of his eightieth birthday and to pay a special... Read more »
Operating at full throttle at the highest level
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Ian McDonald Former CEO of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean; Caribbean novelist and poet In 1991-92 Sonny Ramphal was chairing the West Indian Commission, one of the many important lives he was living at the time. He took me on as Editorial Assistant... Read more »
A strong advocate for the future of Guyana and the Caribbean
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Dr Barton Scotland Former Senior Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs The many interviews given by Sonny Ramphal over the course of an illustrious and still very lively career, the several speeches delivered by him and the many studies in which he... Read more »
A network of diplomacy to secure territorial integrity
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Cedric Joseph Former Guyana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom A small state on the South American mainland, emerging from colonialism that left spurious claims to a substantial part of its territory, with a society enveloped in diversities can... Read more »
A true Guyanese and West Indian at heart
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By Clive Lloyd Former Captain of the West Indies Cricket Team; ICC Match Referee It is always a pleasure when one is given the opportunity to say a few things about a celebrated compatriot. I therefore welcome this opportunity to write briefly on my... Read more »
An excellent administrator
By Staff | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 Comments
By R.M. Austin Former Guyana Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China I had hardly joined the Foreign Ministry in 1973 when I was made Special Assistant to Lloyd Searwar. He was at the time responsible for matters concerning the Non-Aligned Movement... Read more »
Frankly Speaking
By Allan Fenty | Friday, October 3, 2008 | 0 CommentsCorruption – and Cabinet changes - Perception usually prevails Even as I’ll eschew classic definitions of the term, I felt an urge to offer my “three-cents” bit on the issue of corruption, so current at this time. Which government of a challenged... Read more »
Thursday’s Cartoon
By Staff | Thursday, October 2, 2008 | 0 Comments
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