NOVEMBER is TOURISM MONTH in GUYANA
What is really needed to make tourism a success in Guyana? – THAG President weighs in
THAG Head, Shaun McGrath
What prevents Guyana from achieving the same level of success in the tourism industry as its Caribbean counterparts? Is it really the absence of blue seas and white sand beaches? Is it the high crime rate and poor hospitality services? Or is the problem, way more complex than it appears on the surface?
President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Shaun McGrath recently weighed in on this issue during an informative session at the inaugural business summit of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI).
According to McGrath, there is national recognition that tourism contributes between six and nine percent to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and brings in a minimum of US $250 million in foreign currency every year. Continue reading →
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GECOM AND JAGDEO – POSTED BY: VERIAN MENTIS-BARKER – OCTOBER 29, 2017
Jagdeo- Patterson – Granger
At the nucleus of the furor over the ‘unilateral’ selection of James Patterson to head Guyana Elections Commission, GECOM, is an emboldened Bharat Jagdeo, an infamous vestige of the ethnic nationalism he piloted during the twenty three years he pretended to govern a country of six races with an even hand, while subverting the very constitution he now defends with the impostures of faux patriotism.
That he continues to portray the part of Political Messiah, is the causal effect of the Coalition Administration’s Communications Team still operating at levels of inaudibility.
One would expect that Communications is actually the profession of this Team and since it should be, a subject like Jagdeo, whose pledged raison d’etre is to “keep the government on its toes…hold them accountable”, should not enjoy the exemption of news coverage that he does by these professionals hired to communicate on the government’s behalf, while Opposition Media spotlights the Government with ill intent; especially since he just oozes news . READ MORE
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What Is Really Unprecedented About Trump?
In many respects, the way that the president thinks about politics is utterly conventional.
Julian E. Zelizer | The Atlantic
“Unprecedented” has become one of the most popular terms to use when discussing President Trump. On any given day since January 20 2017, the odds are good that a person can turn on their televisions or browse through a news story to encounter some pundit discussing how President Trump’s actions are unlike anything we have ever seen before.
As a “public intellectual” who takes to the airwaves frequently, I often find myself fielding this question about all sorts of issues. The gatekeepers perpetually have their ears open to hear a guest utter those words. Because of how unpredictable and bizarre so much of the news seems to be in the era of Trump, the desire to blurt out “unprecedented!” when discussing the state of American politics is always strong. Continue reading →
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PPP, Afro-Guyanese groups slam each other over “Indian” vs “Afro” GECOM Chairman
Several African Guyanese organizations on Friday October 27, 2017 lashed out at the East Indian-dominated People’s Progressive Party for submitting 18 mostly East Indian nominees for the post of Guyana Elections Commission in a bid to force President David Granger to select one of them.
“The recent Constitutional appointment by His Excellency David Arthur Granger has publicly revealed what Africans in Guyana and the Caribbean all know, Indians do not want to be ruled by an African Leader because they believe they are superior to Africans,” the African Cultural and Development Association, Pan African Group (Guyana) Branch, The All African Guyanese Association and Concerned Citizens in the Diaspora said in a joint statement.
Read more: http://demerarawaves.com/2017/10/28/ppp-afro-guyanese-groups-slam-each-other
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Oct 30, 2017 
Whither to?—– Respect & Morality – By Yvonne Sam
Whither to?—– Respect & Morality
“To educate a man in mind and not n moral is to educate a menace to society”. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Permit me to respond to the impassioned plea for a return of moral values made by Mrs. Paula Hamilton the headmistress of St. Rose’s High School. (Caribbean Life, October 24, 2017). Continue reading →
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