Guyana Review

By Wilfred Beckles I am grateful to CXC for the invitation to join in celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and am happy to respond. 

Caribbean diplomacy Presentation by Sir Shridath Ramphal Georgetown, 20 May 2009 I want to begin by congratulating the CARICOM Secretariat on the mounting of this Workshop.

The descendants of indentured Indian immigrants and settlers who came to British Guiana between 1838 and 1928 constitute the largest group in the population.

Kyk-Over-Al is one of this country’s oldest and most respected literary journals.

Professional Caribbean police officers believe that serious social problems are propelling crime in the region.

The indigenous people of the Guianas are largely ignorant of their governments’ intentions for the environment and of their inalienable rights.

By Jillian Dewar When one looks at a simple grain of wheat it is hard to imagine the culinary wonders that result from its processing into the flour products we enjoy everyday!

To say that the future of the West Indies as a test-cricketing region is in a state of deep uncertainty would be to indulge in considerable understatement.

Janet Jagan was a household name in this country for over six decades.

By Arnon Adams I can still remember the sense of anticipation that preceded the swearing in of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America on January 20th. 

With their hands in a three-fingered salute pointing at the ceiling and the stirring lyrics of the battle song “Oh Fighting Men” on their lips, delegates to the People’s Progressive Party’s triennial congresses renew the vows and reenact the rites of an  anachronistic creed.

The Report on Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development by the United Nations Expert on Minority Issues has ignited a firestorm of controversy.

The formation of the People’s Progressive Party-Civic alliance was a useful political expedient in 1992.

This is the third in a series of articles provided by the CXC Secretariat for exclusive publication in the Guyana Review to mark the 30th anniversary of the CSEC examinations.

In the early forties in then British Guiana when Mrs Janet Jagan as a young bride of a young Guianese Dentist came to this colony of migrant workers as it then was, she was in fact an immigrant from the United States.

By Troy Peters Guyana’s cricket,  once the admiration and envy of most of the regional territories  for its astute leadership and sound developmental programmes because of its domination of regional cricket especially at the U19 level over the past years now finds itself reeling towards a stage of destruction never experienced before.

The significance  of the Inter Guiana Games reposes both in its importance as a symbol of friendship among the three Guianas and in the opportunity that provides for healthy competition among young people.

Questions about torture in the Guyana Defence Force have still not been answered satisfactorily.

Four successive electoral defeats have badly weakened the People’s National Congress Reform party.