Dear Editor, What is this about people and their complaining about the police even as they are doing their work? They are accusing them of indiscriminate shooting, as though these law enforcers are a set of mad men on the loose. Such wrangling resulted from the arrest of four young men in Sophia. Relatives and residents are now trying to claim otherwise, saying that the police behaved in a dangerous manner, shooting indiscriminately. This kind of thing is quite recurrent when it comes to the police and their sweeping down…
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The UG-private sector combination
Dear Editor, I am very upbeat about what the University of Guyana (UG) is touting these days. I think of more collaboration with other universities, openness and willingness to embrace the private sector, internal discipline where professionalism is concerned, and better facilities even as the present ones are being shored up. The campus at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara is large and a lot can be done. Recently, the grounds men at UG uprooted a number of trees and they simply garbaged them all. I looked at one massive trunk and…
Read MoreSpecial needs education in Guyana
Dear Editor, The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about 15-20 per cent of any school age grouping will have special needs. Ideally, handling such cases involves a lot of complexities, including individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, accessible settings and other interventions designed to help learners with special needs, and a higher level of personal self-sufficiency and success in school and community, among others. In Jamaica, there are ongoing talks too about special needs education. For many of the citizens there, the…
Read MoreLooking beneath the surface
After I made a throwaway comment about having to “think like an adult” now that I’m finishing up my CAPE and had to do “Caribbean Studies” and “Communication Studies”, I was asked to elaborate by friends who’d decided to enter the real world right after CSEC. As a science student, I’d thought the “soft” subjects would be a real distraction from the real “stuff”. But over the last two years, I think CXC made a real good decision to make the subjects compulsory for everyone doing CAPE. From primary school,…
Read MoreInquiry launched into death of young mom, foetus during labour
By Umadevi Bux – Georgtown Public Hospital Chief Executive Officer Michael Khan said an inquiry has been launched into the death of a young woman and her unborn child at the medical facility. Khan also offered sincerest condolences to the bereaved family. A 28-year-old mother died while giving birth at the hospital early Tuesday morning. Louann Rodney and her unborn child of Meadow Brook Drive, Georgetown, succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital around 08: 00h on Tuesday during induced child labour. According to the husband of the deceased Nigel George…
Read MoreDeath row inmate begs court to consider appeal
A death row prisoner is appealing to the court to give urgent consideration to his case after his attorney filed an appeal on his behalf. Anthony Beharry called “Tony” was condemned to die for the September 20, 2004 arson/ murder of his cousin. He was accused of torching a house belonging to his aunt, which resulted in the death of a cousin, Yusuf Latiff. Beharry, 43, of Reliance Settlement Canje was said to have torched the house after an argument with relatives, including his mother and sisters. His lawyer, Charrandas…
Read MoreDon’t fix…
Satiricus was fond of Americanisms. And that’s why he really didn’t mind Rum Jhaat affecting an American accent and talking about “gonna” do this and “gonna” do that. Never mind the jerk hadn’t spent more than a couple of weeks in the States. Heck maybe he’d been looking at old John Wayne movies on TV. Lets mosey down to the saloon for some liquor, pardner. But Satiricus would’ve never thought the ex-Talker Rum-Kara was also taken by the American way. In fact, Satiricus always believed that Rum-Kara was a very…
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Guyana signs on to global arms trade treaty
Guyana on Monday joined a number of countries around the world in signing on to the United Nations Global Arms Trade Treaty. The treaty calls on states to explicitly consider the risk that an arms transfer could facilitate serious acts of violence against women and children before allowing it to proceed. This is according to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Chief of Child Protection Susan Bissell. “This is critical given that weapons are now one of the leading causes of death of children and adolescents in many countries, including many…
Read MoreTrade war salvos
It appears that we just witnessed the follow-up salvos in what might turn out to be a full-scale trade war between China and the West. Unfortunately, the product at the centre of the fracas is the solar panel, which has the potential to assist in the most crucial global challenge of the century – global warming and climate change. Last October, following up on preliminary penalties set earlier in the year, the U.S. Commerce Department set anti-dumping duties ranging from 18.32 per cent to 249.96 per cent on solar energy…
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