Guyana Review

Leg side pull
Leg side pull

Carl’s mighty promise and the mightier disappointment

By BC PIRES The 1990s, the Queen’s Park Oval, West Indies playing – India, if memory serves, but mine is more likely to spit in my soup – and Carl Hooper slid down the wicket, like a cobra on cocaine, to lift some poor sap – Anil Kumble?

Kraigg Braithwaite

West Indies cricket plodding along

We can only hope that the outcome of the final Sharjah test against Pakistan on November 3 provides some kind of impetus for the West Indies cricket team ahead of what will almost certainly be a far more testing encounter against England later next year.

Jubilee day

Celebrating our Jubilee

We are still in our Jubilee Year though the ceremonies and celebrations put together to mark the 50th Anniversary of Guyana’s independence have passed and gone without matching the hype and hoopla that had been attached to the buildup to the event.

PNC Leader David Arthur Granger

The ‘Good life’

Address by His Excellency Brigadier (retd) David Granger Leader of the People’s National Congress to the 19th Biennial Delegates Congress of the People’s National Congress The 19th Biennial Delegates Congress of the People’s National Congress assembles today.

Trinidad and Tobago Prime minister Dr Keith Rowley facing the press in Georgetown earlier this year during the Summit of Caricom  Heads

Caricom – trends towards the future

A PRESENTATION BY AMBASSADOR COLIN GRANDERSON ASSISTANT SECRETARY-GENERAL FOREIGN AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) SECRETARIAT AT THE ORIENTATION PROGRAMME FOR THE NEWLY APPOINTED HEADS OF GUYANA MISSIONS Caricom, going forward In 2012, one year before the celebration of the Fortieth Anniversary of the Caribbean Community, the Conference took the decision to “re-examine the future direction of the Community and the arrangements for carrying it forward”.

Wrong Turn

After the deed had been done they were unable to think straight, to fashion a plan to extricate themselves from what they had done.

President Nicolas Maduro

Noises of war?

Venezuela’s historic pattern of provocation and sabre-rattling in support of its spurious territorial claim against Guyana has manifested itself once again.

New President

The May 2015 general elections and beyond

Just how long the changed atmosphere in Guyana will last following the May 11 general elections and the removal of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration from office after twenty three years.

Dr Odeen Ishmael

PPP suffers setback in Guyana elections

By: Dr. Odeen Ishmael, Senior Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs   Guyana witnessed a change in administration after the ruling People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP) lost by a mere one percent of the votes to an alliance of opposition parties comprising A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) in the general elections held on May 11.

David Granger and Ban-Ki-Moon

The Caribbean… a zone of peace

Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Address by Brigadier David Granger, MSS President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana  to the 11th Parliament, Georgetown, on 9th July 2015.

Who’s in charge here?

The rise and fall of Donald Ramotar

At 65 and generally felt to be in fairly good health one might have thought that Donald Ramotar departed the political centre stage far too early though, in as sense, it was he who ‘called time’ on his own presidency.

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