President Irfaan Ali delivered a masterstroke on Thursday last in his address to the opening sitting of the new session of theNational Assembly. What was anticipated to be a routine report to the nation about progress made over the past year and prospects for the coming year, turned out to be much more. The President used the opportunity to announce a […]
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FOUR NEW SENIOR COUNSEL
At the invitation of the Chief Justice, the Hon. Madame Roxane George-Wiltshire, I made the welcoming presentation on the occasion of the admission of four lawyers to the Inner Bar as Senior Counsel on Friday last. This is what I said: It is an honour and a privilege to welcome to the Inner Bar the […]
WHAT I SAID IN NEW YORK: A SYNOPSIS
October 5 will forever be remembered in the history of Guyana as the date when a short-lived democracy was restored. Our freedom was obtained on May 26, 1966. The period of formal democracy lasted from 1966, until 1968 when it was crushed by rigged elections. The rigging of the 1968, 1973, 1980 and 1985 elections […]
25th ANNIVERSARY OF FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN GUYANA
(Speech to New York Diaspora 8th October, 2017) October 5 will forever be remembered in the history of Guyana as the date when a short-lived democracy was restored. Our freedom was obtained on May 26, 1966, after a ‘fiddled constitutional arrangement,’ as described by Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister of the UK, when he was […]
AMBASSADOR BAYNEY KARRAN SPEAKS
Messrs. Co-Chairs, Dean Massey, Mme. Conference Director, Melanie Smith, Moderators and Panellists, Ladies and Gentlemen,