Year: 2012

Gayle back for ODI series

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Opening batsman Chris Gayle will play in the Natwest limited-overs series against England but has been ruled out of the final Investec Test to be played from June 7-11 at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Gayle will not play in the final Test, despite calls for his inclusion, due to the West Indies Cricket Board insisting on a meeting with the Jamaican to discuss “residual matters” on Sunday. Gayle has made himself available for West Indies selection after meeting all the demands of the WICB but the latest meeting is another twist to…

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A focus on the struggle for Independence in Guyana

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  By Dr Odeen Ishmael Throughout the early part of 1966, preparations for Guyana’s independence celebrations went in full swing. A special committee appointed by the government designed the new coat of arms and selected the Canje pheasant as the national bird. The design and colours of the new flag, appropriately called “The Golden Arrowhead”, had already been chosen during the period of the PPP government from entries submitted through an international competition. The winning five-coloured design was submitted by an American, Whitney Smith. The name chosen for the independent…

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UG architecture students experience historic conservation in Brazil

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By Venessa Deosaran Seven final-year architecture degree students of the University of Guyana, and their lecturer, left Georgetown on a road journey of about 1,452 kilometres (902 miles) that lasted for nearly thirty-four hours. Their destination was Manaus, the capital city of the State of Amazonas in Brazil, our southern neighbour.  The purpose of their visit was to learn, first hand, of the state of conservation of historic buildings in Brazil, using Manaus as a case study. The group arrived in Manaus around 6:00 hrs Saturday, April 7, on the…

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Book Review: They Came in Ships

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  By Petamber Persaud They Came in Ships Peepal Tree Press in conjunction with the Indian Commemoration Trust of Guyana, 1998 IBSN 0 948833 94 7 304 pages   The book, ‘They Came in Ships’, gives a discerning picture of the sojourn of Indians from India to Guyana, a journey through colonial and post-colonial dispensations. The book also looks into the future of Indians in Guyana, and how they may improve themselves. ‘They Came in Ships’ is an anthology of Indo-Guyanese prose and poetry first published 1998 by Peepal Tree…

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Indians and the army

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The Beginning As a colony acquired by conquest (from the Dutch) the British reorganized the “Burgher Militia” in 1806, a unit for each of the three colonies – Demerara, Essequibo and Berbice. The Indians that arrived after 1838 met not only a police force, but also an armed militia to keep them in line. The latter lapsed in the 1950s with the entrenchment and expansion of the GPF to monitor and control the Indians on the sugar plantations. In 1878, however, fears of Indian rebellion (after the 1872 uprising at…

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PM Hinds attends African Diaspora Summit in South Africa

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Prime Minister Samuel Hinds represented President Donald Ramotar at the African Diaspora Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, held over the past two days under the theme: “Towards the Realisation of a United and Integrated Africa and its Diaspora”. The event, hosted by the African Union, attracted African leaders and members of the African diaspora from the Caribbean, the Americas, and elsewhere. Early this year, the union’s leaders agreed to launch the summit in South Africa, and had asked the African Union and South Africa to team up to arrange the…

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Judiciary doing all it can to reduce backlog cases – AG

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The alarming number of backlog cases in the magistrates’, Supreme Courts and the Court of Appeal has become a great concern for the judicial system, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said. For quite some time, counsels and their clients, more so, inmates have been complaining about the lengthy period they are forced to wait for their cases to be heard and even when they are being heard, the process encounters various hiccups. For the past 15 years, the number of cases that have been appearing in the courts have created a…

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Guyanese Gandhi

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Satiricus accepts that he’s an incorrigible optimist. Some say the cup is half-empty; well, Satiricus only sees it half-full. And, well… yes; he is talking about the PPP’s cup. But seriously folks, when Satiricus saw how Ram Jhaat Tan had not shown up for the NICIL TV debate, he knew that here was a man who just wanted to avoid conflict. The man was head of an organisation named after Gandhi; he was also engaged in politics. Could it be? Were we seeing the birth of the Guyanese Gandhi? “Gandhi??!!”…

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EU plugs Gy$ 6.5B into sugar industry – pact for hydropower in Kato also signed

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  By Ariana Gordon Government and the European Union (EU) last Friday signed two financing agreements to the tune of Gy$ 7.1 billion (27.4 million euros) for a micro-hydropower system in Kato, Region Eight, and budget support for the ailing sugar industry. The agreements were signed by Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh and EU Ambassador Robert Kopecky in the presence of EU representatives and other officials of the Finance Ministry. The EU had approved a project for the development of a micro-hydropower system on the Chiung River, Kato, Region Eight.…

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Some dependent even though dem “independent!”

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Saturday de country was 46 years old as it celebrate it Independence from de Union Jack. Now, yuh getting “jack” fuh union when yuh look at de disunion in the Unions. That aside, even though de country independent, is gat some who are not independent, despite claiming to be! It gat some who is actually 46 years old but still living with dem “ma” and “pa!” Some in this set don’t even wuk and dem who do, does mek others believe that dem not dependent on anybody! People does call…

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