University of Guyana
Oct 15, 2018 – Kaieteur News
The University of Guyana’s academic board has for the first time approved a decision to confer Honorary Doctorates on four distinguished Guyanese.
The board recently approved the petition from Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith to confer Honorary Doctorates on the internationally acclaimed singer Eddy Grant of ‘Electric Avenue’ fame; Amerindian rights activist, Laura George; astute businessman, Yesu Persaud; and U.S based realty businessman and philanthropist, Jay Sobhraj. Continue reading →
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Munidat “Raj” Persaud
Oct 15, 2018 – Kaieteur News
A Guyanese pilot who was investigated by local aviation officials for the unauthorised departure of two planes in 2016, died in a small plane that crashed into the ocean waters off of Long Island, New York.
Munidat “Raj” Persaud, 41, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was identified as a victim in the Saturday morning crash, New York State Police said. The plane crashed around 11 a.m. about a mile off of Quogue, New York, in the Hamptons. Continue reading →
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A generation is learning from what they see- So adults must perfect models be.
By Yvonne Sam
My next door neighbor, who also hails from my native land, has two young sons, and although one is a tot and the other a baby I recently became concerned while interacting with them. Unlike their parents whose concern may lie somewhere between teething and potty training, my biggest concern, strangely enough was how to keep cellphones out of their hands for at least the next fifteen years. Yes, go ahead and exhale now.
Today kids and teenagers alike face an epidemic without a cure: screen time—– and all its accompanying dysfunction, mental health problems and bad habits. The head-in-the-phone attitude is more than mere irritation. Sad but true this behavior, seemingly harmless in itself can nevertheless determine whether or not a young person lives or dies. Continue reading →
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Bridgetown (Guyana Guardian) – Angered by a massive fraud that spans from Guyana to Barbados to India and beyond, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley is moving to close down several offshore universities that are operating there, while insisting that she will be implementing new legislation that would make it relatively difficult for foreigners to go there and establish questionable offshore medical schools.
Referring to the Washington American University (a sister operation of the Guyana-based Alexander American University) that was operating in St. Phillip, and the recent arrest of its CEO, Venkata Rao Gopi, an Indian national who is also wanted in India in connection with hundreds of fraud reports, the Prime Minister said that “We are going to make sure that that draft legislation comes, because Barbados must never have this indignity again ….”. Continue reading →
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