https://i0.wp.com/demerarawaves.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UG-2024-5.png!

Monthly Archives: April 2013

The IMF’s Caribbean Report: A Critique by Ronald Ramkissoon Ph.D. Senior Economist, Republic Bank Ltd.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 April 2013, 19:19 by GxMedia The recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Report on the Caribbean titled Caribbean Small States: Challenges of High Debt and Low Growth (February 20, 2013) deserves particular attention for some of the things it says, and for some of the things it did not say. As is well known, Caribbean states, ...

Read More »

Homosexuality not abomination; women’s clothing don’t invite rape-Swami Aksharananda

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 15:55 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 »

APNU, AFC presidential candidates undergo public scrutiny

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 14:58 by GxMedia Alliance For Change (AFC) presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan says his party would rather remain in opposition than join another to create a parliamentary majority following the November 28 general and regional elections. His comment was in response to a question from the audience at Wednesday’s Merundoi-organised Presidential Forum which was ...

Read More »

PERISCOPE: HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 14:57 by GxMedia {mp3remote}http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/176652096/podcast/%5Btindeck.com%5D%20-%20periscope-2012-02-12.mp3{/mp3remote} HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean was the subject of this week’s programme – Periscope.  On this programme, United Nations Special Envoy on HIV in the Caribbean, Professor Edward Greene talks about, among other things, steps being taken by Caricom to decriminalize buggery and prostitution.

Read More »

PERISCOPE: Why APNU possibly lost the election?

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 14:56 by GxMedia {mp3remote}http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/176652096/podcast/apnu.mp3{/mp3remote} On this edtion of Periscope, long-serving member of the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR), Aubrey Norton and veteran Working Peoples Alliance member, Tacuma Ogunseye examine a range of issues from the opposition’s perspective.

Read More »

Men must be fully responsible for rape; gays should be helped out of sin- Muslim cleric

Last Updated on Sunday, 28 April 2013, 14:53 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 »