This index refers to all articles published in the Guyana Review in 2009, listed by month. Articles are arranged under ten headings – Arts and Culture; Defence; Economy; Education; Environment; Frontier and Foreign Affairs; Public Health and Medicine; Public Policy and Politics; Public Safety and Crime and Recreation and Sports. Some titles have been modified for clarity.
January
Arts and Culture
Book: The British West Indies Regiment …11
Book: CLR James and politics …19
Edison Jefford’s Nobel ambition …16
East Indians: Our place in Guiana …9
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
CARICOM: The road ahead …5
As EPA ink dries …7
The debt is unpayable …17
USA: Obama and the search for a new contract in America …15
Reviving Muslim Democracy …10
Public Policy and Politics
PNCR: Trouble at the top …2
Public Safety and Crime
How safe were we in 2008? …3
Recreation and Sports
The West Indies in New Zealand: Still stalled on the road to recovery …24
February
Arts and Culture
Books: Where fantasy meets reality …18
African-Guyanese: Our place in Guiana …9
Economy
Clash of the Titans …5
The global financial crisis and the collapse of the neo-liberal paradigm (Part 1) …10
Caribbean economic recessions in historical perspective …13
Education
Thirty years of CSEC examinations …8
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
Caribbean security challenges …7
Public Policy and Politics
Hope, hype and human rights …2
Jagdeo’s choices …3
Public Safety and Crime
Dangerous decade …6
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: Deferring to technology …19
March
Arts and Culture
Books: Consociationalism and governance in Guyana …14
The language we speak …15
Economy
The global financial crisis and the collapse of the neo-liberal paradigm (Part 2) …2
Big companies should not be allowed to run small countries …8
Education
CXC strategic re-positioning …13
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
Region: Small states in stormy weather …6
Public Policy and Politics
PNCR: Point of no return …4
Torture …9
How the foreign service lost its way …5
Media: The war over memory …9
Recreation and Sports
Salvaging sport …20
April
Arts and Culture
The language we speak (2) …11
Education
CSEC: The jewel in CXC’s crown …13
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
USA: Everybody’s Obama …15
Public Policy and Politics
A house divided: Ethnicity and Security …8
Janet Jagan. Politics, Party and the Pursuit of Power …1
Janet Jagan: The last immigrant …14
PPP: A break with the past …7
PPPC: The civic legend …10
Recreation and Sports
Cricket calamity …15
Our own Olympics …16
May
Arts and Culture
History: Indian presence in Guyana …14
Heritage: Guyana today …15
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
CARICOM: Caribbean diplomacy …12
Public Policy and Politics
Face of fear …1
Waging war on women:
Domestic violence in Guyana …4
Amerindians: Ignorance on the periphery …18
Public Safety and Crime
Policing the region …17
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: More gloom …20
June
Arts and Culture
Architecture: St James-the-Less Anglican Church …17
Richard Allsopp. Words, work and willpower …18
Heritage: Six outstanding men in British Guiana’s history …15
Literature: When writers meet …11
Economy
NAMILCO: Quality management system certification …11
Strengthening Guyana’s road network …20
Education
The class of 1979: Pre-tested, tested, proven …6
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
Brazil’s hemispheric geopolitics …4
Caribbean insecurity in the age of apathy …5
CARICOM: Doin’ dem Bajan back …12
Public Policy and Politics
Caribbean judiciaries in an era of globalisation …7
Ranji Chandisingh. The enigma of a trilemma …19
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: More gloom …20
July
Arts and Culture
Architecture: St Francis de Sales Anglican Church …17
Books: Let’s learn about Climate Change …12
Heritage: River transport …16
Entertainment: Charmaine Blackman …18
Education
University of adversity …3
University of Guyana. The private sector and the knowledge economy …10
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
CARICOM: Jagdeo’s summit …1
Public Policy and Politics
PNCR’s permanent insurgency …6
Public Safety and Crime
Arson central …7
Policing troubled communities …4
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: Caribbean cricket’s calumny …19
Cricket: Strike …18
August
Arts and Culture
Writing: Beginner’s luck …11
Education
Combatting the breakdown of discipline in our schools …20
Early childhood education …18
Manners still matter …22
Physical education in the school curriculum …19
Teacher preparation and development …12
Thirty years on, the Caribbean Examination Council prides itself …11
Transitional six-year curriculum …11
UNICEF’s contribution to education in Guyana …21
Public Policy and Politics
Let’s save the children …9
What now for Caribbean people and their leaders? …24
PNCR: Challenging Corbin …2
PPPC: Jagdeo’s tenure …1
Public Safety and Crime
Investigating crime …10
Shaheed Roger Khan: Drugs, dirty money and the death squad …6
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: Bigger fish to fry …27
September
Arts and Culture
Architecture: Sharples House, Duke Street, Kingston …16
Books: Masala Maraj …20
Trevor Rhone, master dramatist …17
Heritage: Road and rail transport …18
Mavado: Popular entertainment and the public good …1
Defence
Mission impossible. Guyana’s defence policy dilemma …4
Public Policy and Politics
Ambitious, industrious and unemployed …5
EveryChild and the search for solutions to the scourge of violence against children…13
Tackling the mountain of domestic violence in Guyana …2
What now for Caribbean people and their leaders? …14
Politics
PNCR: Robert Corbin and the future of the People’s National Congress …10
PPPC: Bharrat Jagdeo and the future of the People’s Progressive Party …8
October
Arts and Culture
Heritage: How Georgetown got Its streets …18
Defence
Military misbehaviour …9
Education
Something to celebrate: Queen’s College observes its 165th anniversary …5
Frontier and Foreign Affairs
Brazil: Slow men at work …4
CARICOM: What now for Caribbean People and their leaders? …14
Public Health and Medicine
A conversation with Dorothy Fraser, Secretary General, Guyana Red Cross Society …17
Public Policy and Politics
PPP: Little to celebrate …5
Recreation and Sports
Cricket: Caribbean cricket’s loss of innocence …20
November
Culture
Books: Cedric Joseph, Anglo-American Diplomacy …17
Selwyn Ryan, Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man …14
Krishna Sarbadhikary, Surviving the Fracture …18
Heritage: Glimpses of Kingston …16
Public Policy and Politics
Does Guyana need another President for life? …3
Looking out for our children …1
The Davies Doctrine …5
Public Safety and Crime
Crime: The Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan saga …7
Security: The sad saga of security sector reform …9
Recreation and Sport
Football: Something to shout about …20
December
Arts and Culture
Books: Queen’s College in print …13
Entertainment: Comedy Jam …1
Music: “I will die a pan man” …12
Heritage: Nineteenth Century Georgetown …14
The rise of Victoria: mother of all villages …15
Public Safety and Crime
Crime of the year …4
To live and die in Guyana …3
What sort of police force do we want? …5
Public Policy and Politics
The decline and fall of political parties …6
Recreation and Sports
Football: The King takes centre stage …18
