Year: 2018

FOR YOUTHS, BY YOUTHS…DENNIS GLASGOW OF ASPIRE targets reproductive health and rights

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Dennis Anthony Glasgow is a 20-year-old Caribbean Youth Advocate for the advancements of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of young people. His advocacy career began at the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) some years ago. It was this foundation and involvement in youth development that led him to found ASPIRE Youth Network Guyana. The Youth Network deals primarily with Adolescent and Women’s Health and Rights while still preparing young people to take part in meaningful advocacy and political engagement. Glasgow also is a member of the United Nations Population…

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Cricketfever

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Satiricus was still smiling at the thought of his Warriors’ first victory. What a sight it was!! Every seat in the Stadium filled – but suddenly emptied, as their occupants spontaneously jumped to their feet, arms in the air, and screaming in unison!! How sweet it was!! As he hurried over to the Back Street Bar, Satiricus knew he’d been taught that winning wasn’t everything. And it was how you played the game. “But damn!! Winning is better than losing!!” he said aloud emphatically as he reached the table where…

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It seems as if the WPA just awoke from its slumber

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Dear Editor, It would seem that the Working People’s Alliance [WPA] has just woken up. For three years, with all the scandals — including the move by the Coalition Government, of which it is a part, to hide the US$18 million signing bonus — the WPA has been silent. Now it claims that it was never “consulted or briefed on the negotiations and other official deliberations” on oil and gas. This all seems very convenient because we are months out from the Local Government Elections and it would seem that…

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Man, 67, gets 2 life sentences for child rape

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Several weeks after being found guilty of two counts of sexually penetrating a 10-year-old girl on May 30 and June 2, 2014 at a West Coast Demerara (WCD) village, Abdool Jamil, a 67-year-old pensioner, was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail. On Monday, he was ordered to serve two life sentences by Sexual Offences Court Judge Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, who said that the offender must serve at least 45 years before he was eligible for parole. Justice Sewnarine-Beharry noted that a strong signal needed to be sent…

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Cops raid EBD ‘strip club’

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…27 foreign women detained Ranks in A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara) on Friday evening swoop down on an illegal bar on the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) where they found some 27 female foreign nationals. The raid occurred from 21:50h to 23:55h at the Bikers Bar located at Lot 22 Covent Garden Public Road, EBD. Public Relations Officer of the Police Force, Jairam Ramlakhan said in a statement on Saturday that the Police were acting on a report received that a ‘strip club’ was being operated at the road front…

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Mo’ money…

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…mo’ problems The debate continues to swirl around Clive Thomas’s suggestion that the Government dole out some of the funds from the coming oil bonanza as cash payments directly to Guyanese citizens. He’d give G$1 million annually to each family. The suggestion was accepted by his party – the WPA – a member of the APNU combine, as its official position. Those members said they’ll be canvassing people – especially the “poor and the powerless” — on the suggestion!! Canvassing poor folks to find out what they think about getting…

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Passing…

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…of a genius In an age when reading books received a stake in its heart from Internet memes — after being wounded by the spread of TV — the passing of VS Naipaul probably won’t elicit more than a passing mention in the obituary columns of the dailies. Excepting with those columns now dead, the obit will, at best, be a column from some “humanities” academic – itself a dying part of the university curriculum. And that’s a tragedy, because a close reading of the books by canonical writers like…

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The Cost of Sugar*: Novels Speaking To The Issue (Part One)

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by Petamber Persaud Sugar in Guyana is writing another chapter in its history, another sordid chapter but hopefully not the final chapter nor a chapter in finality in its bitter sweet history. For almost all of its two hundred years history, sugar was a dominant factor in the social, economic and political arenas of this country. Now sugar is a grave concern for all, as per Martin Carter all are involved! all are consumed! Historians, academics and commentators have adumbrated the basic facts. The creative writers are filling in the…

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Guyana-Brazil road link one step closer to reality

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The Guyana-Brazil road link is becoming closer to reality. Authorities in both countries are working to complete the terms of reference for the design of the Lethem to Mabura Hill road within two months, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Guyana said in a press statement on Thursday. Director of Northern and Western South America at the Brazilian Ministry of External Affairs, His Excellency Norberto Moretti, has revealed that efforts are made to open the bidding process by the end of the year. “The goal by the end of the…

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Murder case of NY-based Guyanese takes another turn

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…as mother moves to CCJ for urgent hearing The high-profile case of prominent New York-based Guyanese Marcus Bisram is taking another turn, as proceedings have been filed at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) – the region’s highest court, which is based in Trinidad and Tobago. This recent move was mounted by Bisram’s mother Sharmila Inderjali, who was just last week denied an application for urgent hearing by the Appeal Court of Guyana, which essentially sought to expedite the judicial process regarding a bid to have the Director of Public…

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