Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana Riding on the Crest of Truth
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia The debate about the most suitable form of government for Guyana has been ongoing since the 1970s and continues with vigour today. Ravi Dev wrote on the issue recently in the Kaieteur News and Henry Jeffrey made suggestions earlier this week in SN. After the 1973 elections, at which the ...
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Ruling of the Speaker on the Continued Restraint on the Right of Hon. Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee M.P. to Speak and Participate in the Business of the National Assembly.
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Ref: No. 2-2013 PARLIAMENT OF GUYANA SPEAKER’S CHAMBERS PUBLIC BUILDINGS, BRICKDAM, GEORGETOWN RULING OF THE SPEAKER ON THE CONTINUED RESTRAINT ON THE RIGHT OF HON. MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS CLEMENT J. ROHEE, M.P. TO SPEAK AND PARTICIPATE, IN THE BUSINESS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The matter of whether Minister ...
Read More »World Day of Social Justice is Good Time for Reflection on Children’s Rights in Guyana
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Zenita Nicholson By Zenita Nicholson, Guyanese mother, advocate and Secretary on the SASOD board of trustees Annually, World Day of Social Justice is commemorated on February 20. This year, I feel the Day can be acknowledged by highlighting the monumental work of Guyanese groups advocating to advance human rights protections and ...
Read More »Men must be fully responsible for rape; gays should be helped out of sin- Muslim cleric
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:49 by GxMedia Moulana Abu Bak’r (left) appearing on Plain Talk. Men should take full responsibility for raping women and gays should be provided assistance to abandon their sinful and abominable lifestyle, according to a local Muslim Cleric. Appearing on the January 27 edition of Christopher Ram’s television interview programme, ‘Plain Talk,’ Moulana ...
Read More »Homosexuality not abomination; women’s clothing don’t invite rape-Swami Aksharananda
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 20:49 by GxMedia Swami Aksharananda Principal of the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) High School, Swami Aksharananda says he respects the rights of homosexuals but he will not promote or judge a lifestyle. “It is not an abomination for us,” he said on Christopher Ram’s weekly interview programme “Plain Talk.”
Read More »Visionary on mega-projects, shortsighted on societal ills- Retired Army Chief Joe Singh
Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:02 by GxMedia Retired Major General Joseph Singh A patriotic, urbane and distinguished Guyanese is now lying on a hospital bed as a recovering victim of a callous, brutal and vicious attack on his person and on his family by four ‘youth men’, one of whom reportedly shouted “Police”, before launching their assault.
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