by Region 10 Chairman, Sharma Solomon. The Negotiation Team of Region Ten is scheduled to meet with Central Government’s Negotiation Team shortly. This meeting comes after the Region held engagements with the residents on the status of the August 21, 2012 Agreement which culminated with a community meeting at the old Palm Tree Cinema, Wismar, attended by 5000 plus residents.
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There has to be another way- Roman Catholic Bishop
by Roman Catholic Bishop, Francis Alleyne. Ten children in a mini-bus commuting from Georgetown to home in Diamond are delayed in traffic for hours and witness fire, and confrontation between police and civilians; they hear verbal threats and harsh language. They are scared, tired, hungry and in tears. There has to be another way.
Read More »OP-ED: International Day of the Girl Child
US Ambassador Brent Hardt with a group of Guyanese girls. by US Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt. Last year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution to declare today’s date as the International Day of the Girl Child to recognize girls’ rights and the unique challenges they face around the world. This resolution also seeks to galvanize global commitments ...
Read More »EU Parliament to host discussion on Ukraine-EU relations on Tuesday
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Read More »Jagdeo- Guyana’s Putin
by Political Oracle History is dominated with a plethora of acknowledgment and myriad examples of the concept “true power lies behind the throne”. Most astute politicians will endeavour to try to achieve the skills to be a “king maker rather than a king”. The term “secret president” is not so mundane in our daily political discourse, but the concept was ...
Read More »Local and international implications of the Guyana Chronicle editorial
by Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes The now infamous editorial of the Guyana Chronicle published on the 3rd July 2012 has been the subject of much commentary over the past week. Article 154 A of the Constitution of the Republic of Guyana directly incorporates into law the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination.
Read More »History will venomously condemn Ramkarran if he returns to PPP
by Political Oracle If Ralph Ramkarran decides to return to the Peoples Progressive Party, his political reputation will be damaged. The confidence the Guyanese people have in him as a decent individual and a person who can improve the socio-political conditions in Guyana will be tarnished. Indeed, his profile as an alternative to President Donald Ramotar will be drastically diminished from that ...
Read More »End Sexual-Orientation and Gender-Identity Discrimination in Guyana
Reproduced from the Huffington Post by Sherlina Nageer Guyanese LGBT activist, spokesperson, and member of the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (“CEDAW Committee”), meeting this month at United Nations headquarters in New York City, will review the human-rights record of several countries that are signatory parties to the Convention on the Elimination ...
Read More »Autonomy of the Parliament
by Ralph Ramkarran A Motion and a Bill, tabled by Khemraj Ramjattan of the AFC and Volda Lawrence of APNU respectively, relating to the autonomy of the Parliament Office, are before the National Assembly. The Motion resolves that a Special Select Committee be appointed to examine two sets of recommendations, one by Sir Michael Davies, a Commonwealth Senior Parliamentary Staff ...
Read More »National Unity- Hast the time arrived for the final effort?
by Ralph Ramkarran The PPP started life as a political party which consciously embraced all strata of the society. The most important, immediate, objective was the unity of the major races of the main social groups, the working and middle classes, including intellectuals and professionals. At this early time, 1950, the founders of the PPP understood that its eventual goals, ...
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