Guyana Review

This index refers to all articles published in the Guyana Review in 2009, listed by month.

Guyana would do well to contemplate the rich rewards that Jamaica continues to reap from its investment in athletics at the schools’ level Jamaican track and field athletics has now far surpassed West Indies cricket as the Caribbean’s best-known and most globally marketable ‘product’ and recently, the Senegalese President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Lamine Diack recommended that the Caribbean Community member state’s focus on sport at the junior level provides an example which both we in the region and the rest of the world should follow.

Cervical Cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in women worldwide and one of the leading causes of death among women in developing countries.

Interviewee: Dr. Vilma Perez, former assistant consultant Cancer Institute of Guyana GR:  How high is the incidence of Cervical Cancer in Guyana?

Guyana is attempting to adopt a new diplomatic posture. But does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs understand what it is capable of achieving with its limited resources?

As the People’s Progressive Party celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, tensions rise, rifts reopen, rivalries are rekindled and the struggle for supremacy sharpens.

By David A. Granger Is the Caribbean nothing more than a geographical expression?

How will Guyanese remember the first decade of the 21st Century?

By Dr Leyland Mason Introduction There is a changing role for teacher education in these times.

Humphrey Metzgen and John Graham, Caribbean Wars Untold: A Salute to the British West Indies.

By Judaman Seecoomar (Leeds,Peepal Tree, 2009) ISBN13: 9781845230272 Peter D Fraser This is the last book, posthumously published, of a fine scholar and teacher.

Water as a factor in Guianese History Guyana Review reprints this essay by W.T.

Part 1 In the fullness of time the Report of the 2009 Commission of Enquiry into the operations of the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown may well come to be seen as a landmark contribution to the salvaging of the machinery that manages the ‘engine room’ of the country’s capital though Commission Chairman Keith Burrowes prefers to describe the undertaking as “a small step in what will have to be an extended process.” 

Comedy Jam Not the regular ‘ole ting’ Ron Morrison talks with Guyana Review about his ‘fresh perspective” on stage entertainment Ron Morrison is animated as much by the social role of theatre as by the art form itself.

Crime of the year The ‘Leonora Incident,’ in which a boy was tortured by the police last October, was the worst crime of the year.

Life for many ordinary Guyanese in 2009 has not been very kind.

What sort of police force do we want? The defining public security incident of 2009 was the torture of a boy by the police.

The decline and fall of political parties Mass-based parties have dominated local politics for over half century.

“I will die a pan man”Guyana’s steel pan icon Roy Geddes talks with Guyana Review about his life and his music You wouldn’t guess that Roy Geddes is seventy.

Queen’s College in print Norman E. Cameron, A History of the Queen’s College of British Guiana (reprint).