Guyana Review

Glimpses of  Guyanese History Nineteenth Century GeorgetownGuyana Review reprints this essay by Eric Roberts that was first published in Kyk-Over-Al, Vol.

The rise of Victoria – mother of all villages Victoria Village, the first village to be founded on Guyana’s coastland, celebrated the 170th anniversary of its purchase in November.

Up until the Learjet 35 touched down at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport Timehri at mid-afternoon last Saturday cynics held fast to their suspicion that the earlier news that football’s most celebrated icon would grace these shores might have been a marketing gimmick by the Kashif and Shanghai Organization to ‘hype up’ their twentieth annual tournament in an economically difficult year.

Social and political activist Karen De Souza talks with  Guyana Review about our obligation to keep our children safe and how the state is handling that obligation GR:  I know that you were in the forefront of the recent protest over the delay in the promulgation of the Child Protection Act, what is your organisation’s perspective on this issue?

Two presidents − Forbes Burnham and Cheddi Jagan − who led the local political movement in 1950, seemed set to become presidents for life.

Who is to be blamed for the decline in governance? Concern has been growing steadily over the past decade about the lack of meaningful engagement in public life.

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan’s career in organised crime was characterised by drug-trafficking, gun-running, money-laundering, wire-tapping and robbery.

Public safety in Guyana is still precarious. If there is to be change, serious, strategic, sustainable reform of the security sector must be restarted soon.

By FRANK BIRBALSINGH Krishna Sarbadhikary: Surviving the Fracture: Writers of the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora New Delhi, Creative Books, 2007, pp.289 ISBN 81-8043-047-2 Krishna Sarbadhikary is a former university teacher who now works as an independent researcher and scholar. 

A Review By LOUIS REGIS Selwyn Ryan Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man (Mona: UWI Press, 842 pp) Selwyn Ryan states what was clearly his primary purpose in writing the massive and monumental biography Eric Williams: The Myth and the Man: “One of the aims of this study was to go behind the mask and the tribal myths to try to answer the perennial question, who was “the real Eric Williams”?

Kyk-Over-Al is one of this country’s oldest and most respected literary journals.

Cedric L. Joseph’s Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Reopening of the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966 (Trafford Publishing, 2008) ISBN: 9781425134716, ppxvi+522, ill.

Twenty years is a relatively brief period in the context of history. 

Edna King – stage 4 breast cancer survivor talks with The Guyana Review about life after cheating death Edna King is courage personified.

Recently, The Guyana Review conducted an extended interview with AFC Executive Member Gerhard Ramsaroop during which he spoke at length  on issues relating both to his personal outlook and to the politics of the political party which he feels is much more than the ‘third force’ that it has been labeled. 

Queen’s College observes its 165th anniversaryThis year marks the 165th anniversary of the establishment of Queen’s College − the most prestigious educational institution in Guyana’s history.

Guyana-Brazil relations have been impeded by deficiencies in physical infrastructure and slowed by a feeble foreign service, impotent government bureaucracy, underdeveloped commercial sector and a distrustful political directorate.

Was the lame observance of the 17th anniversary of the People’s Progressive Party’s 1992 election victory a case of intellectual exhaustion?

Reflections on the current economic and social crisis: A gender perspective10th W.G

Currently, the Society is conducting orientation sessions in dissemination of fundamental principles for new volunteers.