I congratulate the ten Judges who have been appointed and wish them well in the discharge of their important duties. They are: Mrs. Zamina Ally-Seepaul, Mrs. Priscilla Chandra-Haniff, Mr. Peter Hugh, Mrs. Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, Mrs. Jacqueline Josiah-Graham, Mrs. Deborah Kumar-Chetty, Mr. Nigel Niles, Mrs. Joy Persaud-Singh, Ms. Nicole Pierre and Ms. Hesaun Yasin. These are […]
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For several decades the Government’s response to allegations of the existence of corruption was: Where’s the evidence? This response served to close down such allegations. Rarely, if ever, are such allegations, when courageously made, referred to the Police. In Guyana, and many other developing countries for that matter, such allegations are treated as political attacks, […]
News reports yesterday suggest that the Ministry of Education will soon pronounce on the issue of the flogging of ten Queen’s College students by a senior teacher which occurred on May 16. The matter had attracted wide publicity and a report by the Board of Governors containing recommendations has been submitted to the Ministry of […]
Birthdays are always a time for celebration and reflection. Many Guyanese will feel happy that we have survived as a united nation. For reasons of partisan politicking, Independence was de-emphasized after Guyana became a Republic on 23 February, the date of the Berbice Slave Rebellion in 1763. It was also conveniently close to Burnham’s birthday […]
The Congress of the Peoples’ Progressive Party, few and far between, is taking place this weekend in the elevated ambience of the Arthur Chung Convention Centre at Turkeyen, Georgetown. It is the largest in PPP’s history, attended by 3,000 delegates and observers. The number of delegates has not been revealed, so it is impossible to […]
