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Queen’s College (QC) again reigns supreme as 2018 CSEC results released

August 18, 2018 – 4:30 am

QC again reigns supreme as 2018 CSEC results released

 Aug 18, 2018  Kaieteur News

With Queen’s College [QC] claiming seven out of the 10 top spots, the results of the 2018 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate [CSEC] examination was announced yesterday by Minister of Education, Ms. Nicolette Henry.

Claiming the top spot this year is QC’s Christian Pile with 19 grade ones.

With 18 Ones and 2 Twos, Shakira Bholo of the Anna Regina Secondary School was named the second best performer. Following with 18 Grade Ones is Salma Majeed of ISA Islamic, while Areeb Ali of QC claimed the fourth best performing position with 17 Ones, 3 Twos and 1 Three.     Continue reading →

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Guyana Cultural Association New York – JULY 2018 e-Magazine

August 16, 2018 – 1:27 am

Download: Guyana Cultural Association NY -JULY 2018 e-Magazine

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Guyana’s Oil Wealth Distribution: Articles by Lincoln Lewis and David Hinds

August 15, 2018 – 3:20 pm

 Aug 12, 2018 – Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis, 

Not one pint of oil has flowed from this nation but the battle lines are already drawn as to who must have control and who must benefit. Nearly every country in the developing world has seen the benefits from oil wealth disbursed among the oil companies/shareholders, politicians, their families, friends and cohorts.

For instance, last year, the President of Angola appointed his daughter, alleged to be the world’s richest African woman, to head the state-owned oil company. In Iran, a billionaire tycoon was sentenced to death for corruption in 2016, based on conviction that his role as the middleman for the government in organising oil deals, saw him evading sanctions and accumulating personal wealth in the process.     Continue reading →

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President Forbes Burnham: a Legacy with “Food For Thought” – by Francis Quamina Farrier

August 10, 2018 – 10:54 pm

President Forbes Burnham: a Legacy with “Food For Thought” – by Francis Quamina Farrier

Burnham 33 Death Anniversary Feature of August 6, 2018

Forbes Burnham

Some say “Burnham”. Some say “Forbes Burnham”. Others say “Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham”, while there are those who say “The Founder Leader”. Of course, there are some who say, “The Dictator”.

Last Monday, August 6, 2018, dozens of individuals and groups converged at sunrise, at The Place of the Seven Ponds in the Botanical Gardens in Georgetown, where they payed homage to the memory of a man who, along with others, including Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Stephen Campbell, laid the foundations for an Independent Guyana. It was the occasion of the thirty third anniversary of the sudden passing, on August 6, 1985, of President Forbes Burnham; Guyana’s first executive President.

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Guyana: The Debate over the Distribution of Oil and Gas Wealth heats Up

August 8, 2018 – 12:50 am
  • Cash handouts from oil wealth will spark ridiculous election campaigns – Nigel Hughes
  • Prof Clive Thomas advocates Money (e.g $5000 US/yr) for each Household 

Aug 08, 2018  – Kaieteur News

 Nigel Hughes

Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes is completely against the suggestion by some that a portion of the nation’s oil wealth should be set aside to make direct cash handouts to every household.

At the recently held Eusi Kwayana Emancipation Symposium which took place on Sunday at Friendship Primary School, Hughes said that such a proposal would lead to ridiculous election campaigns which would distort, completely, the need to focus on true development of the state and its people.     Continue reading →

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AFC’s decision to contest LGE solo leaves it politically exposed – Dr. David Hinds

August 8, 2018 – 12:31 am

Local Government Elections – November 2018 – AFC’s decision to contest it sols leaves it politically exposed – Dr. Hinds

Aug 08, 2018 – Kaieteur News – 

The decision of the Alliance For Change (AFC) to contest the Local Government Elections (LGE) alone leaves it in an exposed position. It must now prove whether its electoral support is intact, or if it has vanished.
This view was recently expressed by Executive Member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds.

In a missive to the media, the political commentator said he is not the least bit surprised with the AFC’s decision. He opined that the only other choice it had was to not contest at all. If it had chosen to do that, then Dr. Hinds said it would have been an admission of defeat.    Continue reading →

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Backward Rules in a Backward Country – By Freddie Kissoon 

August 8, 2018 – 12:19 am

Jamaica’s Olivia Grange is doing what David Granger should do

 Aug 08, 2018 – Kaieteur News – Freddie Kissoon 

Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, is reviewing the dress code for women in governmental buildings. Under current guidelines, sleeveless dresses and tops are not permitted. The renewal of the debate was tempestuous after the UK Prime Minister wore a red sleeveless dress to the official ceremony welcoming President Trump.

Many argued that such a type of wear would not have allowed a woman to get into a government function. One writer then exposed the double standards of Jamaica society by pointing out that the wife of the Governor-General wore a sleeveless dress to the inauguration of Prime Minister Andrew Holness.   Continue reading →

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The president’s rebuke of Black people on Emancipation Eve 2018 – By David Hinds

August 5, 2018 – 1:09 pm

I have some difficulty with the president’s rebuke of Black people on Emancipation Eve

Aug 05, 2018 – Kaieteur News – Hinds’ Sight with Dr. David Hinds

According to media reports, President Granger used the occasion of the Emancipation Eve event at Beterverwagting to deliver what one media house described as a “hard-hitting” speech in which he rebuked African Guyanese for not lifting themselves as their fore-parents did. It was one of those moments that caused all of Guyana to stop and listen because the rebuke came from the leader of the country and the political leader of Black people in Guyana on a day when those people turn out in their numbers to celebrate the anniversary of freedom from the worst form of human bondage.      Continue reading →

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Guyana: Reparations for Slavery: Afro-Guyanese deserve 15,000 square miles of territory

August 2, 2018 – 9:44 pm

Afro-Guyanese deserve 15,000 square miles of territory as partial compensation for enslavement; law being drafted for African land rights

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in – Demerara Waves – August 1, 2018-  Comments

Photo: Chairman of the Guyana Reparations Committee, Eric Phillips and Retired Rear Admiral, Gary Best.

The Guyana Reparations Committee is drafting legislation to allow Afro-Guyanese to secure a percentage of Guyana’s territory as compensation for slavery in the same way that Amerindians have been legally guaranteed land rights, a move Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best supports.

“I believe that unless the State acknowledges its responsibility, we’ll only be looking towards the external reparations which is financial reparations but within the country itself, I think Guyana owes its own people to allocate a portion of land both onshore and offshore reparatory justice to the people of Guyana,” Best said.

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Barbados Improvements Part 3: Agriculture – Future products

August 2, 2018 – 1:31 am

Guyanese Online – Editor’s Note:

Many of these ideas could be applied to Guyana, where there is a declining sugar industry and ample land and water available.

Barbados Underground

Submitted by Freedom Crier

Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) & Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera)

Investigate the production (oil palm) as the replacement for sugar cane production including on hilly or semi-arid lands. The infrastructure that we have in sugar plantations is the same as required for this type plantation crop and we have an oil processing plant in Barbados i.e. Roberts Manufacturing. Just a small amount of retooling is necessary. The by-products of Oil Palm production EG: palm kernel meal can be utilised and be consumed as chicken feed, cattle, sheep & goat feed, instead of the importation of feed and feed stocks. The soya bean stock that is imported now to make Oil, Margarine, etc. could be a thing of the past. Palms grow well in Barbados from coconut to ornamental palms. It is easy to include/change to Oil Palm & Date Palm if feasible and the topography and…

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