Miranda La Rose

Although recently retired after giving over 40 years to the livestock sector, Pitamber Panday is still on duty for the farmers who need his help. 

When a then teenage Leola Agatha Marslow née Wilson began to teach, very much intending to use the experience as a stepping stone to some other profession, she could not have imagined that 42 years later she would be retiring from a fulfilling career as an educator.

“Football was to be my destiny,” says Gordon Winston Patrick Brathwaite, 62, recalling that when he was just 18 months old he was photographed with a football.

When a newly-married Eleanor Phoolmattee Abraham nee Ragnauth left her Whim home on the Corentyne in January 1972 and journeyed to the Rupununi to join her husband, she never expected that almost 50 years later, the Macushi village in Nappi, Central Rupununi would become her lifelong home.

Best known as “Sir Steve” or “Feets,” Gerard James Stephen La Rose is small in stature but his presence looms large.

Earl Montgomery Thomas, of St Lucian Mission, Wakapoa, in the Pomeroon River, Region Two had to reach rock bottom before he took control of his life.

Chairman of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Nicholas Fredericks has recommended that Indigenous communities set up their own security services to ensure law and order in their communities as he believes the Guyana Police Force is incapable of adequately protecting them.  

Over the past two weeks, miners from Georgetown, Lethem and Brazil have returned to the Marudi Mountain area in the South Rupununi and it is a “a hell hole right now,” according to South Rupununi District Council (SRDC) chairman Nicholas Fredericks.

New People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) presidential candidate Irfaan Ali yesterday said he does not see himself as anyone’s puppet or as an individual within his party but as part of a team to implement its programme on assuming the reins of government after the next elections.

“No one in their right mind is going to happily come to face the hurricane that is politics in Guyana—the mudslinging, the ugliness, the unfair accusations, the cross accusations and the skepticism from the voters who are not happy.

While Guyana awaits the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award on its border with Venezuela, the military, security services and civilians must identify and protest acts of aggression driven by Venezuela’s spurious claim to the Essequibo region and most of the country’s maritime space, retired Major General Joe Singh says.

With its main goal being shared executive governance to end decades of ethnic insecurity, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) yesterday entered the political fray with what it said was a legally enforceable pledge not to coalesce with any of the major parties to secure a role in government.

Francis Vibert De Souza, 73, was not only the first Minister of Amerindian Affairs, he was first and foremost a “fine patriot”, a professional, an entrepreneur, and “a people’s cultural icon”, who composed revolutionary songs and guitar music reflecting the struggles of the Guyanese people.

Deputy Chairman of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) Paul Pierre is appealing to the authorities to provide firearms and other means for toshaos – who have the power to make arrests as rural constables but no means to protect themselves from acts of violence.

The A New United Guyana (ANUG) party is set to be launched in another two weeks’ time at a press conference at which announcements will be made, according to one of its founders Ralph Ramkarran SC.

Should they be chosen as the PPP’s presidential candidate and win office, contenders for the post Anil Nandlall and Irfaan Ali say that former president Bharrat Jagdeo will play a major role in their administration.

Coming off of running a successful local government election just six weeks ago, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has the capability to pull off general and regional elections within the next 90 days, according to Opposition-nominated commissioner Bibi Shadick.

The Santa Rosa community in Moruca, Region One (Barima/Waini), yesterday paid tribute in music and prose to the work and legacy of local educator, musician, scout master and sportsman, the late Victor Patrick Ferreira, MS, at the Santa Rosa Roman Catholic Church.

Administratively, the new categories of agricultural workers, security guards, beauticians and barbers who will be able to enjoy free movement within the Caricom Single Market and Economy space, “will be allowed to move between now and February,” says lead Prime Minister of the CSME Mia Mottley.

Government will support a ban on rum in the Carib community of Baramita, in Region One, if requested, according to high ranking officials of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs (MoIPA), who say that interventions to address some of the social ills plaguing the community have yielded some success, such as fewer reports of rape.