Monthly Archives: December 2018

The NEW GUYANESE NORMAL– –LOVE and UNITY – By Yvonne Sam

12/31/2018 – 3:11 pm

The NEW GUYANESE NORMAL– –LOVE and UNITY

By Yvonne Sam

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” Dr.Martin Luther King.

Here we are smack in the beginning of a New Year, with no resolution to take to heart, no revolution to start, just a simple solution to impart.  In order for the nation to chart any degree modicum of progress, the inhabitants need to turn back the hands of time and return to a place where a strong sense of love and unity did once abound.   Let it be referred to, or designated as — – The New Normal.             Continue reading →

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Charrandas Persaud hints at supporting PPP during speech in Canada

12/31/2018 – 2:23 pm

By: Denis Chabrol in Demerara Waves-  December 30, 2018 

Charrandas at Hindu mandir in Canada

Progressive Party (PPP)-sponsored no-confidence motion, then government parliamentarian Charrandas Persaud stopped short of saying that he was now backing the country’s opposition party.

In an interaction with a pandit (a Hindu priest) before Hindu congregants in North America, he called on overseas-based PPP supporters to encourage their families and friends in Guyana not to vote for the Alliance For Change (AFC) of which he was a member or A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).

“You are the ones that can make the difference as you have done in past elections. You need to call out your people over there, once you’re 18, get registered, check your name, go and vote. And you’re not voting AFC, you’re not voting APNU, I’m not saying more. You don’t want them back there,” he said.    Continue reading →

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Year 2018: Reflections – By Rosaliene Bacchus

12/31/2018 – 12:51 am

Three Worlds One Vision

Year 2018 was filled with disappointments, self-doubt, and loss of direction. After completing my second novel, The Twisted Circle, in September 2017, I failed to grab the attention of literary agents or publishers.

“Not quite the right fit for us,” respondents said.

“You’re not good enough,” my inner critic said.

Drowning in self-doubt, I clung to the recognition that my yet-to-be-published first novel, Under the Tamarind Tree, had received when shortlisted for the 2014 Dundee International Book Prize.

Each attempt to get started on my third novel, to be set in Brazil, fizzled out. The Top Boss in the White House held my afflicted heart in his grip. My mind became a barren landscape of shifting sand dunes. In September, I abandoned my writing project.

Where do I go from here? The answer still evades me.

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USA Abandonment of Kurds Sends Bad Message to Allies in East Asia – commentary

12/31/2018 – 12:24 am

Once again, Washington has left allies to face greater regional powers on their own; the implications for East Asia are stark

Grant Newsham| | Asia Times

It was always obvious James Mattis wouldn’t be US secretary of defense forever. So his resignation last week wasn’t a surprise – only the circumstances were.

The last straw was apparently US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria, contrary to Mattis’ and the US military’s advice. Mattis also made clear his view on the importance of maintaining alliances and standing by allies.         Continue reading →

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Guyana: The January 1969 Rupununi ‘Uprising’ recalled – 50 years later

12/31/2018 – 12:06 am

The Rupununi ‘Uprising’ recalled, 50 years later – The events of January 2 to 4, 1969

 Dec 30, 2018  Countryman, Features / Columnists – By Dennis Nichols 

Unprecedented! That was a word on the lips of Guyanese when, fifty years ago this Wednesday, January 2, the Rupununi region hit the news headline with a bang; in fact several bangs. They were gunshots, reverberating throughout the country, echoing from neighbouring Venezuela and across the Takutu into Brazil; shaking the complacency of many urban Guyanese to whom that sprawling locale was little more than an isolated adjunct to our coastal communities. When the dust had settled, literally, at least six persons lay dead in Lethem, including five police officers.     Continue reading →

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Presidential Decree: Venezuela orders naval force to protect ‘its waters’

12/30/2018 – 1:00 am

 Dec 30, 2018  – Kaieteur News

Photo: President Nicolas Maduro (L) speaks with Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo during a ceremony in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 28, 2018. | Photo: Reuters

Venezuela on Friday authorised its naval force to protect its waters with the presidential decree expected to impact oil activities in Guyana.

The decree, signed by President Nicolas Maduro, would be more evidence of a growing aggression by that neighbouring, Spanish-speaking country, and comes days after two exploration ships working for ExxonMobil were stopped from carrying out its work in Guyana waters.

Venezuela claimed that the area is theirs.
The Government of Guyana, ExxonMobil and the US government have all denied that the two exploration vessels were in Venezuela waters.           Continue reading →

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Washington’s new Africa policy may affect the Caribbean – By David Jessop

12/30/2018 – 12:46 am

The View from Europe: Washington’s new Africa policy suggests a changed Caribbean relationship

David Jessop

By David Jessop

What should one make of the recent announcement by the US president’s national security adviser, John Bolton, outlining a new ‘America First’ policy towards Africa?

If taken at face value it suggests that the US administration is embarking on a policy that regards the continent as a Cold War playground in which superpowers vie for influence and control, irrespective of the sovereignty of the states concerned. At the same time, it implies that the decades-long US policy neglect of the continent and its cession of engagement to Europe, is at an end.              Continue reading →

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CRICKET: CCUSA – National Championship – Registrations Open – April 26-28. 2019

12/30/2018 – 12:30 am

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Happy New Year 2019 – 12 Poems – By Dmitri Allicock + Music Video

12/30/2018 – 12:10 am

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A Message For All Of Humanity – Charlie Chaplin in movie “The Great Dictator” (1935) – video

12/29/2018 – 12:19 am

A Message For All Of Humanity – Charlie Chaplin’s inspirational final speech in “The Great Dictator”. This video was made in 2011 to illustrate this speech made in 1935, Transcript below: 

I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone.

And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed.        Continue reading →

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