by Dr Randolph Persaud (Professor Emeritus) Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney are two of the most formidable thinkers on problems of race and racism. Fanon, a psychiatrist from Martinique, and Rodney, a Guyanese historian, were both world class scholars, anti-colonial activists, and champions of the poor and the powerless. Anti-racism was an integral dimension of their respective intellectual and political ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 17:59 by Denis Chabrol Reproduced from Daily Beast A New York bank manager allegedly tried to hire a hitman to kill her brother-in-law, but things were swiftly derailed when the hired gun informed the man—one day prior to when the deed was supposed to be done—that he was the target of an assassination ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 August 2023, 13:59 by Denis Chabrol Veteran People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member, Neend ‘Neil’ Kumar on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), a senior health sector official said. The official said Mr Kumar’s condition was listed as “stable” and he was due to have an angiogram. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 21 August 2023, 22:09 by Denis Chabrol Even as Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) resumed flights on some routes after pilots began trickling back to work following a court order, at least three United States (US)-based Guyanese on Monday said they would sue the carrier for failing to fly them out of Guyana on Sunday after cockpit ...

Last Updated on Monday, 21 August 2023, 20:05 by Denis Chabrol New York-based Guyanese opposition political activist Rickford Burke has fired back at Guyana’s Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo’s plan to go after participants at a conference on alleged racial and political discrimination against Afro-Guyanese that is expected to be headlined Democratic Leader in the United States House of Representatives, Congressman ...

Last Updated on Monday, 21 August 2023, 18:07 by Denis Chabrol STATEN ISLAND, New York City (WABC) — It’s been three long months of surgeries, skin grafts, physical rehabilitation, and grief counseling. But Monday, three months to the day of a fatal fire that claimed the lives of 20 students in a girl’s dormitory in Guyana, the most critically burned patient ...

Last Updated on Monday, 21 August 2023, 17:30 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has dismissed any chance of Guyana’s National Assembly passing laws by a supermajority to force consensus between the government and opposition, suggesting that neighbouring Suriname’s super-majority decision-making process causes gridlock. “Just imagine people talk about power-sharing and the two sides sitting at the cabinet and ...

Last Updated on Monday, 21 August 2023, 14:29 by Denis Chabrol Power company workers were Monday afternoon working feverishly to restore electricity to several areas in Demerara and Berbice after a major connection between Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara and the Sophia substations. The Guyana Power and Light (GPL) technicians were trying to ascertain whether road works on the East ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 August 2023, 20:18 by Writer The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is paying keen attention to what appears to be a sickout by Caribbean Airlines Limited’s (CAL) pilots that on Sunday grounded all of that carrier’s flights. CAL’s international, regional and domestic flights, including those to and from Guyana, have been canceled. The airline said ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 20 August 2023, 20:22 by Writer A Venezuelan woman on Saturday admitted to the stabbing death of a man at Kumung Kumung in Region 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) hours after her refusal to dance with him had sparked off an altercation, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said. Investigators said Orianma Naomi Silva Figuera of Puerto Ordaz, a Venezuelan ...