In November last year, 11-month-old girl Melveena Angel Blair died in a fire at her home in Sophia while her brother suffered burn injuries. Along with another child, they were home alone.The elder brother had jumped through a window to call his mother who immediately arrived on the scene. Both parents had been at work making dog food for a living. Today, one year later, the family is in even more […]
Author Archives: Ralph Ramkarran
The complaints of workers at Aurora Gold Mines brings into focus the weakening capacity of the trade union movement in Guyana. The early era of trade union activity in the Caribbean took place amidst intense worker unrest in the 1930s which triggered a British investigation published as the Moyne Report in 1945. Moyne said that […]
The question posed in the headline might appear to be trivial. But behind it lies the fundamental issue of the PNCR’s reckoning with the election results and the policies it will adopt towards the Government and the PPP. The question many will ask is: Has the PNCR taken any lessons from its catastrophic loss in […]
Pokrovsk, a town in north-east Ukraine in the Donetsk region, has long been surrounded by Russian troops and the noose has been tightening. It is reported that Russian soldiers, who are now fighting in devastated parts of the town, will soon capture it. After the fall of Pokrovsk, a logistics hub of road and rail […]
Without context, the victory of the PPP at the last general elections was a landslide. Within the context of elections in Guyana, where the PPP has gained over or close to 50 percent of the votes in all general elections since 1992, and in the past five years the economy has grown exponentially, creating high […]
