Few in Guyana have any sympathy with Nicholas Maduro and the Venezuelan regime which rigged the last elections to remain in power. Notwithstanding Caricom’s advocacy of the Caribbean as a zone of peace, meaning that American warships and troops, threatening the Maduro regime, should leave the area, opinions are sharply divided. The Trinidad and Tobago Government,reacted presumably to the flow […]
Author Archives: Ralph Ramkarran
I kind of like Jeremy Cobin, the former leader of the British Labour Party. He came to politics early and spent his entire political life on the radical left, promoting progressive causes, including peace, disarmament, social benefits, poverty alleviation and other worthy causes. He was on every forum, every demonstration, every platform that promoted the objectives he considered to be worthy. He was activist, not […]
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 […]
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 […]
