The jury remains out on the use of referral system in Test cricket The decision by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to implement the use of a refererral system as part of the adjudication process in Test cricket represents an acknowledgement that the present system that leaves decision-making mostly to the two on-field umpires has resulted in an increasing level of controversy creeping into the game.
Evidence of a crisis at the level of the leadership of the People’s National Congress/Reform (PNC/R, the main political opposition to the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has given rise to healthy speculation among political watchers about the future of the party and a fair measure of disquiet among party members.
By Analyst Is the People’s National Congress dying? The party passed its 50th birthday quietly 15 months ago in October 2007 amid anxieties over its future.
Was Guyana a safer place in 2008? The answer depends on how the impact of the momentous events that occurred during the year is measured.
CARICOM Incoming Chairman’s New Year Address 2009 Honourable Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize As Prime Minister of Belize I have, on January 1, 2009, assumed the Chairmanship of the Caribbean Community for the next six months.
What’s next for our creative sector? By Josanne Leonard Reprinted from the Trinidad and Tobago Review It’s now three months since the controversial CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was signed in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Charles Tannock is UK Conser-vative Foreign Affairs Spokes-man in the European Parliament and led the EU parliamentary delegation of election observers to the recent Bangladesh elections.
Cedric L Joseph, The British West Indies Regiment, 1914-1918. Georgetown: Free Press, 2008.
Guyana Review Editor Arnon Adams talks to 2006 Guyana Prize for Literature Honorable Mention awardee Edison Jefford When I asked Edison Jefford where he felt his ambition as a poet would take him there was an arresting bluntness about his response.
Reprinted from the Trindad Review – December 1st 2008 By Cary Fraser In 1963, the African American writer, James Baldwin, published My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation in which he wrote: “Please try to be clear, dear James, through the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the words acceptance and integration.
La deuda es impagable Remarks at the Great Hall of the University of Havana on receipt of the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Honoris Causa December 3, 2008 Norman Girvan I cannot begin to express the deep sense of honour that I feel on your bestowing upon me the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences, Honoris Causa of the University of Havana.
The following is the final part of a four-part series on CLR James by Peter Fraser By Peter Fraser James’ politics falls into two phases.
Still stalled on the road to recovery The suggestion that the West Indies’ straight sets loss to Pakistan in last November’s three-match Limited Overs encounter in Abu Dhabi, was due in large measure to a euphoria hangover, at least among those members of the team who had just a few days earlier been the beneficiaries of cricket’s biggest ever payday – the Stanford Twenty-Twenty for twenty million US dollars encounter against England, is a reflection of the extreme cynicism that attends the outlook of analysts of the regional game.
The British Guiana Centenary Year Book, 1831-1931, edited by E. Sievewright Stoby, was published in 1931 to celebrate the centenary of the unification of the colony of British Guiana in 1831.
David de Caires was one of the most outstanding Guyanese newspaper editors of the 20th century.
Guyana’s gangs have participated in diverse criminal activities − armed robbery, murder, narcotics-trafficking, gun-running and piracy − over the past decade.
General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour and former General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress Lincoln Lewis talks with the Guyana Review about the agenda of the Caribbean Congress of Labour (CCL) and the challenges facing labour in the Caribbean GR: In what respects does your role as General Secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour differ from your previous position as General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress?
On November 17, 1978 Neville Annibourne flew to Jonestown in his capacity as an Information Officer with the then Government Information Service.
“I am not being pedantic. In these metaphysical matters you can misplace a comma and be thereby liable to ten thousand words of aesthetic damnation.”
Born in controversy in 1974, the Guyana National Service was dismantled in controversy in 2000.
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