Category Archives: Education

Guyana Memories: “I’ll always Remember” and “I’ll never Forget” – by Francis Quamina Farrier

October 16, 2018 – 8:51 am

Dave Martins with Farrier

Like so many Guyanese and many other nationals around the world, I am a Dave Martins fan. I love his music with that rich bouncy Caribbean beat. I love his lyrics, always with something to learn and think about. And during the past decade or so, I have come to enjoy reading his weekly column in the Sunday Stabroek News.

In a more recent article entitled “Lessons I never forgot”, in which he was reflecting on his learning experiences while an up-and-coming musical entertainer, I couldn’t help observing his use of the term, “I never forgot”,  which was in the Headline.  It got me to thinking of something I was doing unwittingly for many decades, with the use of that term,  “I’ll never forget”, and it’s twin, “I’ll always remember”, and realised that somehow I was using both terms, which I suppose means the same thing, very selectively.    Continue reading →
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Profile: The late Romesh Singh – By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine

October 16, 2018 – 1:05 am

Profile: Romesh Singh -Engineer, Activist and Teacher

Romesh Singh, also known as Romesh Chandra Dutt was a person of many interests. He built radios and radars, set up communication links that brought the world closer and never lost sight of the fact that ordinary people matter. Romesh was one of the foremost telecommunications engineers of his generation that designed complex systems.

He was unassuming but firm in his convictions, and above all, he had an abiding love for his homeland, Guyana.

When you were with Romesh you knew that he stood for what was right. He did not play around with words, or said one thing and meant something else. Romesh was the genuine article, a scholar with varied interests, outspoken in his views, and always giving of his best to the community.

Read more: Profile – Romesh Singh = By Dr. Dhanpaul Narine

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UK Councils Condemned For ‘Shameful’ Rebranding of Black History Month 

October 16, 2018 – 12:48 am

Appropriation row comes as councils scrap the Black History Month name in favour of celebrations of all different ethnicities

Sally Weale and Robert Booth | The Guardian UK

For more than 30 years, Black History Month has been a fixture in Britain’s cultural calendar, celebrated every October in schools and at tens of thousands of events across the country.

But this year the event is at the centre of an appropriation row as campaigners complain that a number of councils have scrapped the name, describing it instead as a celebration of all different ethnicities.        Continue reading →

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Despite criticisms, UG prepares to bestow honorary doctorates on four Guyanese

October 15, 2018 – 10:55 am

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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Issues confronting the Caribbean’s Ageing Diaspora and Regional Governments? – By Shamette Hepburn

October 11, 2018 – 6:34 am

By Shamette Hepburn – Stabroek News

Over several decades members of the Caribbean diaspora have observed the day to day happenings in their territories of origin. Spiraling crime rates, increased economic hardship and insecurity generally punctuate the news from back home. Yet they know that crime and violence are only a small part of Caribbean life. The rest is positive and fulfilling and Caribbean migrants remain tethered to their homelands.

Members of the Caribbean diaspora have consistently travelled between North America, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean region in order to maintain their social ties. While the vast majority of Caribbean nationals are keen to travel back and forth, some are committed to returning permanently to the Caribbean. It is this group that Caribbean governments are intent on re-incorporating into their respective national fabrics.     Continue reading →

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UG – University of Guyana – Discussion on Marijuana and Guyana – October 17. 2018

October 10, 2018 – 6:50 pm

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GUYANA SPEAKS: Windrush: Chandra Panday, Joyce Trottman and George Edward Mangar MBE – AUDIO

October 9, 2018 – 3:09 am

GUYANA SPEAKS:  PODCAST  – AUDIO ONLY

Windrush: Chandra Panday, Joyce Trottman and George Edward Mangar MBE 

Guyana Speaks Windrush: Chandra Panday, Joyce Trottman and George Edward Mangar MBELINK: https://www.mixcloud.com/themediasociety/guyana-speaks-windrush-chandra-panday-joyce-trottman-and-george-edward-mangar-mbe/  

 

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Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship Fund – Mc Master University

October 8, 2018 – 11:30 pm

Download document: Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship Fund

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UK TV Program: “This Is Your Life” – Featuring Muhammad Ali – video

October 7, 2018 – 6:48 am

UK TV Program: “This Is Your Life” – Featuring Muhammad Ali…. (1974)

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Temperament & the Supreme Court Justices  – By Yvonne Sam

October 7, 2018 – 12:37 am

Why the detractory brouhaha about Kavanaugh’s temperament when the Bench has seated others of worse ilk? History reveals a different story.

Listening to Senator after senator and the media ramble on about the absent fitness of Judge Brent Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, one would get the impression that Justices of the U. S Supreme Court had been warm, affable, even tempered individuals.

Taking pride of place in the heated debate about the likely confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh was the question of temperament.  Pushed aside was the impropriety issue. The basic contention lay in the fact that by elevating his voice during the final part of his confirmation hearing , impertinently interrupting, and accosting senators and characterizing  the charges against him as politically motivated, the nominee presented himself as having a character unsuited  for U. S Supreme Court justice. The general impression conveyed was that such a case was totally new not déjà vu.     Continue reading →

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