Guyana Review

Time was when Guyanese patrons of the arts enjoyed a fair pick of events of the best of the performing and fine arts that local exponents could offer.

Education Minister Shaik Baksh talks with Guyana Review Editor Arnon Adams about issues, challenges and accomplishments in Guyana’s education system Challenge and Controversy Challenge and controversy are common to Guyana’s education system.

Poor performance, poor report Guyana has been the subject of poor reports from international organisations because its record of governance has been poor.

Labour on a highway to nowhereMay Day has become a bearable irritant, the presence of red-shirted workers on the traditional Labour Day March indicative of a sentimental attachment to a time-worn tradition rather than to any inherent belief in the dictum that the union makes us strong.

Unsure about UNASUR How prepared is Guyana for the presidency of the Union of South American Nations?

The failure of Guyana’s National Drug Strategy Master Plan Guyana’s National Drug Strategy Master Plan 2005-2009 has expired.

The difficulty with the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative The United States must work more closely with the Caribbean Community if the region is to be made more, not less, secure.

Building under our sun – Part II Following is the second part of “Building Under the Sun” by Rory Westmas Ideas suffer a sea-change But the discipline of classical architecture on its way to the Caribbean went through a middle passage and suffered a sea change.

Elevating the Carnegie School of Home Economics to its proper place Some weeks ago in the course of an interview with the a senior manager of the Pegasus Hotel the question of meeting the challenge of finding skills to meet the various disciplines associated with the day-to-day running of hotels and guest houses arose and my interviewee immediately began to sing the praises of the Carnegie School of Home Economics, pointing out in the process that he believed that but for Carnegie most of not all  of the major hotels in Guyana would probably be in dire straits.

Increasing the Caribbean’s human capital in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Fields: The Pivotal Role of Mentoring This year the eleventh in the series of William G.

Michael Holding’s T/20 tantrum So Michael Holding wants nothing to do with T/20 cricket.

Does Robert Corbin’s announcement that he will not stand as the PNCR’s presidential candidate at the 2011 general elections signal the beginning of the end of the political career of one of the Party’s most dedicated servants?

Part I If there is a distinctiveness in contemporary Guyanese architecture, it is to be found in the radical departure from the good taste and from what the writer of this article,  Rory Westmas, calls “the many examples of timber domestic buildings for the most part, in and around Georgetown.”.

The United Force will observe its 5oth anniversary in October this year It is one of the quirks of Guyanese political history that the People’s Progressive Party, People’s National Congress and The United Force all regard the 5th of October with reverence.

The recently released findings of the Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Georgetown City Council, points unerringly at some of the reasons for the shamefully debilitating state of the country’s capital.

What is the good of government’s establishment of a publishing house?

The sources of fiction One of Guyana’s most prolific and best-loved novelists, the late Roy Heath possessed a consumate understanding of the rich sources from which Guyanese and Caribbean writers derived the themes for their works.

By Haydn I Furlonge Climate change is a reality.  But is it caused by carbon dioxide (CO2)? 

Drainage and irrigation The management of drainage and irrigation has always been central to existence on the coastland. 

Part II Clive Wayne McWatt  was born in Guyana in 1946.