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By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Cervical Cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in women worldwide and one of the leading causes of death among women in developing countries. The …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Interviewee: Dr. Vilma Perez, former assistant consultant Cancer Institute of Guyana
GR: How high is the incidence of Cervical Cancer in Guyana?
Dr. P: It is the …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments
Guyana is attempting to adopt a new diplomatic posture. But does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs understand what it is capable of achieving with its …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
As the People’s Progressive Party celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, tensions rise, rifts reopen, rivalries are rekindled and the struggle for supremacy sharpens.
General Secretary Donald Ramotar …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
By David A. Granger
Is the Caribbean nothing more than a geographical expression?
The word ‘Caribbean’ conjures diverse meanings. Caribbean cuisine, Caribbean rum and Caribbean vacation are …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
How will Guyanese remember the first decade of the 21st Century? Several citizens of substance, who played prominent roles in the second half of the …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment
By Dr Leyland Mason
Introduction
There is a changing role for teacher education in these times. Teacher education is to be seen today not merely as a …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Humphrey Metzgen and John Graham, Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2007, 256 pp.; …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
By Judaman Seecoomar (Leeds,Peepal Tree, 2009) ISBN13: 9781845230272
Peter D Fraser
This is the last book, posthumously published, of a fine scholar and teacher. Both his scholarly …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Water as a factor in Guianese History
Guyana Review reprints this essay by W.T. Lord that was first published in One People, One Nation One Destiny: …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, January 28, 2010 | 0 Comments
Part 1
In the fullness of time the Report of the 2009 Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Comedy Jam
Not the regular ‘ole ting’
Ron Morrison talks
with Guyana Review about his ‘fresh
perspective” on
stage entertainment
Ron Morrison is animated as much by the social role of …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments
Crime of the year
The ‘Leonora Incident,’ in which a boy was tortured by the police last October, was the worst crime of the year. The …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 5 Comments
Life for many ordinary Guyanese in 2009 has not been very kind. Official statements have warned of dangerous developments and international reports, invariably, have been …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
What sort of police force do we want?
The defining public security incident of 2009 was the torture of a boy by the police. The Makhanlall …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
The decline and fall of political parties
Mass-based parties have dominated local politics for over half century. But, as events in 2009 show, popular support for …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 2 Comments
“I will die a pan man”
Guyana’s steel pan icon Roy Geddes talks with Guyana Review about his life and his music
You wouldn’t guess that Roy …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Queen’s College in print
Norman E. Cameron, A History of the Queen’s College of British Guiana (reprint). Toronto: Vantage Systems, 2009; Laurence Clarke, Queen’s College of …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
Glimpses of Guyanese History
Nineteenth Century Georgetown
Guyana Review reprints this essay by Eric Roberts that was first published in Kyk-Over-Al, Vol. 2, No. 7, December 1948. …
By David Granger | Thursday, December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
The rise of Victoria
– mother of all villages
Victoria Village, the first village to be founded on Guyana’s coastland, celebrated the 170th anniversary of its …
