The struggle of the working class and the organised activity of the trade union movement have substantially determined the course of Guyana’s history. While Guyana was not unique, it led the way with the formation in 1922 by Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow of the BGLU (British Guiana Labour Union), the first trade union registered in the […]
Author Archives: Ralph Ramkarran
Season’s Greetings.
I WISH THE READERS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS BLOG A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. I WISH TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS DURING THE YEAR WHICH HAVE ENLIVENED THE DEBATES AND WHICH WILL HELP TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE. RALPH RAMKARRAN
MINING IN THE MURI MOUNTAINS
Like every other serious investment venture in recent times, the PGGS (Permission for Geophysical and Geological Surveys) granted to Muri Brasil Ventures Inc. in November last year has come under serious questioning and has given rise to suspicion and innuendo. Little public information has ever been given to the issue of a PGGS before. Even […]
A CONSENSUS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Frustration at the political gridlock which obstructs all progress now pervades our politics. It has resulted in well meaning persons raising the issue once again of a consensus presidential candidate for the Opposition. This proposal, always just below the political surface, has more resonance at this time than any other in view of the 2011 […]
MANDELA
For most politically conscious people of my age, Nelson Mandela has been with us all our lives. I was not yet a teenager in the late 1950s when I remember a sticker on my father’s car ‘End Apartheid Now,’ the meaning of which I only later learnt. By the time the Rivonia Trials came around, […]