Guyana Review

By Jagdish Bhagwati Jagdish Bhagwati, Professor of Economics and Law at Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently edited, with Gordon Hanson, Skilled Migration Today.

That the Government of Guyana ascribes an altruistic motive to its intervention in the feuding among the rival factions in the struggle for control of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) which had placed local cricket in an even more perilous state than it had been previously, does little to disguise the fact that the intervention was “political,” initiated as it was by President Bharrat Jagdeo during his last few months in office.

In October, West Indian cricket legend and former team captain, Brian Charles Lara spoke to the UWI graduating class of 2011. 

By Romain W M Pitt The issue is: what is more likely to cause long term harm to West Indies cricket?

David Granger APNU The quality of life for the majority of Guyanese has deteriorated under the People’s Progressive Party Civic’s 19-year administration.

Up to the time that this issue of the Guyana Review was published, Raphael Trotman was still the only named Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2011 General Elections A friend Raphael Trotman’s remarked recently that he felt that while the law was his profession politics was his “real calling.”

An Opinion From the Jamaica Observer, July 24, 2011 A 56-year-old civil servant from Dominica where he served in several ministries.

To many people’s surprise The United Force (TUF) announced earlier this year that it would contest the 2011 general elections.

By Leyland Lucas, PhD, Donald Ainsworth, MA, Rawle Lucas, MA, CPA, Sheranne Doorgasingh Wickham, M.

 … Last Sunday, I advised my party’s central executive that I would not seek re-election at the annual general conference to be held next month and I would step down as prime minister as soon as a new leader had been elected.

An edited address in the National Assembly 24th July 2008 by K Ramjattan (AFC Chairman) re Debate on the Court of Appeal Amendment Bill 2008 Sometime ago in this Assembly, I had argued the case that there must be in place a Law Reform Commission.

Media freedom is by no means the first issue that would have arisen in the minds of Guyanese with the advent of the WikkiLeaks phenomenon.

My search for reflections on the life and work of Dag Hammarskjold emanating from Caribbean thinkers and institutions concerned with International Relations may well have been less than vigorous, though, even if it was, I doubt that a great deal was written in the region about the man who is still thought of by many as the best Secretary General the United Nations ever had.

Lennox J Hernandez Broken and spartan, the Anglican Church of St Barnabas, located at Regent Street & Orange Walk, Bourda, Georgetown, opened as a relatively small building in 1884 in a north-south orientation with the main altar at the northern end, and, after a series of grand additions and alterations, consecrated in 1938 with an east-west orientation and the main altar at the east end, is no more.

LASANA LIBURD says despite the recent damage done to the CFU, Caribbean Football is moving forward on a stronger footing.

Football of yesteryear flourished in the urban working-class communities that border Georgetown to the east and to the south.

A STRONG CORRELATION EXISTS between a free media environment and the degree that we can call an election democratic.

On a Donald Ramotar presidential agenda Donald Ramotar cannot be separated from the PPP and the PPP/C Government.

By Cedric L Joseph Africa’s first task was to establish that, like other societies, it had a past and was part of the known global community.

By Ivan O. Carew Having been born and having grown up in the capital city, Georgetown, in the county of Demerara, British Guiana, now called Guyana, I did have some knowledge of the villages on the Eastern bank of the Demerara River.