Daily Archives: 05/19/2018

Bad Leaders Made Africa Poor – Professor P.L.O. Lumumba – video

Bad Leaders Made Africa Poor –“Africa Must Arise”- Lumumba

Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana

Renowned Kenyan Law Professor and Pan Africanist, Professor P.L.O. Lumumba, has attributed Africa’s endless challenges to the poor quality of political leadership on the continent.

According to him, leaders on the continent have failed to harness the opportunities that abound on the continent to liberate their people economically.

Speaking at a lecture dubbed “Africa Must Arise” at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Lumumba admonished leaders on the continent to sit up.      Continue reading

A re-evaluation of the communist label of Cheddi Jagan is needed – by Harry Hergash

A re-evaluation of the communist label of Cheddi Jagan is needed

May 19, 2018 – In Letters: by Harry Hergash | Stabroek News
Dear Editor,

During his lifetime, Dr Cheddi Jagan was skewered, humiliated, and removed from government in 1953 and again in 1964 after being labelled a “communist”. More recently, in his article captioned, Cheddi Jagan, Communism and the African Guyanese (Stabroek News, March 22, 2018), Professor Clem Seecharan writes “… Having graduated in dentistry in the United States, he (Cheddi Jagan) and his Chicago-born wife, Janet Rosenberg (1929-2009), settled in British Guiana in 1943… They were both communists…”       Continue reading

Guyana News Headlines Links – Kaieteur News – May 16-18. 2018

News – 18 May 2018

Concessions galore… Another foreign gold company given $2.5 billion in concessions, Guyana only receives $17 million in royalties

Auditor General still to turn over GECOM fraud reports to DPP

SARA sends 25 intelligence reports to SOCU

Outsourcing of State cases… AG Williams wants Police to question Anil Nandlall

New draft Local Content Policy seeks to temper expectations

Region rum producers worried about int’l competitiveness

43 more Guyanese get home owner status -represents another donor-supported Food for the Poor Project

Derrick Patterson must bear full responsibility – Minister Patterson on brother’s arrest in Grenada     Continue reading

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