Just one year before the birth of Stabroek News, friends, colleagues and acquaintances, who were disaffected PNC supporters, and even some cautious PPP supporters, were hopeful that new policy directions would emerge under President Hoyte, following the passing of President Burnham in 1985. Alas, the audacious rigging of the 1985 elections that gave the PNC […]
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Stabroek News is an integral part of my life. Were it human I would have owned it as family. For longer than I can remember, my mornings began with coffee and Stabroek News, first the hard copy and later the electronic copy. Over the past decade plus, Stabroek News has published a weekly article I write for my blog, Conversation […]
On Wednesday last the public was treated to a brilliant and expansive lecture by the former Chancellor (ag) of the Judiciary and now Distinguished Jurist-in-Residence at the University of Guyana, Carl Singh. The subject was “The Constitutional Guarantee of Fundamental Rights and the Citizen. The lecture, to a packed hall and attentive audience at Herdmanston […]
Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran SC has successfully represented Trinidad High Commissioner to India, Dave Persad, in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC) in London, United Kingdom, in the case of Dave Persad (Appellant) v Anirude Singh (Respondent) which was heard on June 21. The case pertained to a claim by Singh against Persad […]
What follows below is a letter to the editor of Guyana Times, amended by additions, in response to two articles, which he has not published I refer to two articles in your newspaper on March 18 and March 19 and now seek to respond to the false allegations therein about me.
