Historian Dr Estherine Adams, whose manuscript, “The Few Among the Many: Women’s Labour in British Guiana’s Jails”, won the Non-Fiction Award in the 2024 Guyana Prize for Literature, is continuing to research and write with the aim of bringing clarity to some of the narratives that form part of Guyana’s colonial history.
By Abigail Headley
Osei Clarke’s journey to victory in this year’s Calypso competition involved dedication and hard work as he faced the challenge of preparing for not one, but three separate contests this year.
It’s the beginning of tomato season. Various sizes and shapes of the red plump fruit are piled high on stands; pieces of cardboard with their price per pound crookedly stuck between or at the side of them.
Each year, I use the weekend of the Academy Awards to write my last official post on the previous year in film, usually predicated on the relationship with the imminent Oscar winners.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan
Seventh Chancellor of the University of Guyana
Previously Fellow of the LSE and Fellow of Harvard University
Michele Norris, a highly decorated American journalist, is the founding Director of the Race Card Project.
LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, to its list of “terrorists and extremists”, the RIA state news agency reported on Wednesday.
Retired civil engineer Agnes Dalrymple earned the title ‘Iron Lady’ for her no-nonsense approach to any lack of discipline in the predominantly male-dominated workforce she headed, and particularly in the sea defence area where she fought for funding to ensure the safety of people’s lives and infrastructure.
Last Friday, women around the world observed International Women’s Day. Some of us were actually involved in activities that recognised this day, others knew of the day but did not observe it in form while many women do not even know such a day exists.
Teachers’ strike
Court orders mediation between GTU, Ministry: In a major development in the teachers’ strike which has dragged on for 18 school days, Justice Sandil Kissoon last week ordered that mediation begin today with two senior counsel and both the GTU and the government will attend though the latter last night said that judicial intervention was unnecessary given established industrial relations practices.
Working for three years in the private sector made Nicholas Fraser, head of the Allied Arts Unit (AAU) in the Ministry of Education (MoE) realise how valuable his skills and expertise in education are to the nations’ teachers and children, and that this was where he got job satisfaction.
By Abigail Headley
As much as he loves Chutney, for Vicadi Singh, a 32-year-old husband and father from Better Hope, East Coast Demerara family is everything.