Demerara Waves Online News- Guyana Riding on the Crest of Truth

  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.”

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 also attended by APNU’s David Granger. To listen to a ...

 Demerara Waves Internet Radio presents a Podcast of the Staurday, February 4,2012 edition of  ‘Periscope’. That programme focussed on Prospects for a Tripartite Approach to Governance in Guyana.

{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.

{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.

The following is a Youtube Video of the Television Programme, Plain Talk, that cannot be seen readily on some mobile phones. You will have to view it on a computer.

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 Abu Bak’r, however, assured that gays would not be rejected. ...