By Dhanaiswary Jaganauth
Dhanaiswary Jaganauth is a lecturer at the University of Guyana
World Mother Language Day has been celebrated worldwide every February 21 for nearly twenty years now. This
Interviews and photos by Dreylan Johnson and Bebi Oosman
This week we asked the man/woman in the street about the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy and the decision of the United Nations Secretary General to refer the matter to the World Court.
-We’re now an “other-people” people?
Nostalgia usually refers to (fond) memories of something pleasant; sometimes a yearning for a return to past events and times.
Introduction
Readers will recall that Article 27 – Applicable Law, was addressed in Column 29 which is available on the website of the Stabroek News as well as on chrisram.net.
For nearly four long months aboard the crammed “Whitby” the two little girls precariously hung on to life, as grown men groaned, suffered and died in the low, dark deck of the sailing ship.
On 8th February 2018, the same day the Guyana International Petroleum Business Summit and Exhibition (GIPEX) began and the vice president of ExxonMobil, Lisa Waters, was playing up the need for world economic growth to help the poor, an article by Ted Nordhaus was published in the influential Foreign Affairs magazine entitled The Two-Degree Delusion: The Dangers of an Unrealistic Climate Change Target (FA: 08/02/18), in which he said something similar but suggested that social development will be better achieved if we liberate fossil fuels and oil and gas in particular from the strictures placed upon them by the 2015 United Nations climate change conference in Paris.
By Aminta Kilawan Narine
Aminta Kilawan-Narine is an attorney, community activist, and co-founder of Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, which is committed to promoting social justice through the values at the heart of the Hindu faith.
Representative from the Private Sector Commission of Guyana Limited
`The Private Sector Commission of Guyana limited basically represents the private sector organizations in Guyana.
There will likely be much written in the coming weeks about the detail contained in the long-awaited Golding Report reviewing Jamaica’s Relations with Caricom and Cariforum.
-GPL: British, Irish, Scandinavian, Jamaican
If my regular readers discover that these comments are recycled from 2013 and last February (2017), they are absolutely accurate.
Government inaction now constitutes force majeure!
Today we take up from Article 24 which deals with force majeure, the definition of which is set out in paragraph 2.6.
These days, the impatient visitors stream through on noisy trains and tour buses, scanning the horizon and stopping for quick refreshments at the rest-houses that line the Indian coast.
Below are some important parts of a statement taken from a letter by former Prime Minister Samuel Hinds (KN: 02/02/2018), intended partly to place the blame for the violence that took place between 1998 and 2008 on the PNCR and its supporters, which came at a opportune time for this closing contribution on an alternative form of government for Guyana.
The gloves are off.
After decades in which the United States largely looked the other way, the Trump administration has decided to confront China over its growing influence in Latin America.
Last week, we highlighted the key provisions of the Petroleum Commission Bill 2017 which has been referred to a Select Committee of the National Assembly for detailed scrutiny.