Dear Editor, Amid all kinds of economic chaos, Guyana truly stands tall. According to the vice president (operations) of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Guyana is not just withstanding downward trends, but is, in fact, faring better and better. The official flatly praised Guyana’s economic performance, which she said is continuing to withstand the effects of the global financial crisis. Please note that this view is most unbiased and external. Now why did she say this? I have a few parameters that must have been in her mind. Economic stability…
Read MoreYear: 2013
The calypso confusion
Dear Editor, Guyana does not have true practitioners of the art of calypso. I was listening to the radio, and it was clearly brought out – the difference between what our performers do and what the genuine traditional artistes practice. Concerning the furore of whether or not the National Communications Network (NCN) banned the 2013 entries, it seems as if no one issued any, and or at least no one wants to take responsibility or offer explanations. From an artistic and lyrical point of view, I believe the pieces this…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”− Charlotte Whitton This Friday, March 8, is International Women’s Day. Every year, all around the world, International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8, since the early 1900’s. And though respect for women has come a long way from the days when women were confined to only domestic duty, it’s still proof that we still have a long way to go if there still needs to be a…
Read MoreDe Mook got Baddam turnin
De Kocheur News like fuh talk bout how dem is de best newspaper in de country. But old people seh that self praise is no recommendation. So nobody believe that Kocheur is the best newspaper just because dem seh so. Is almost every day yuh read de Kocheur News dem apologisin fuh something. Or somebody cussin dem out fuh writing sheer wrong news. And yet Baddam got the guts to tell people that he is de best editor-in-chief in town. But a reporter at de Kocheur News seh is just…
Read MoreU.S.-based Guyanese doctor leads cure of baby born with HIV
By Vishnu Bisram – An American baby born in Mississippi and infected with the AIDS virus has been cured of the virus thanks to treatment received from a Guyanese doctor, Deborah Persaud. Dr. Persaud hails from West Coast Demerara. She received her medical degree from New York University in 1985 and did her residency at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan. Dr Persaud is a specialist in Pediatric Infectious Disease Medicine and is Board Certified in Pediatrics. She had lived in the greater Richmond Hill area before relocating to Baltimore to…
Read MoreWedding Expo couples treated to aerial view of Georgetown
The four engaged couples vying to win a free dream wedding in the race to the altar contest were treated to a stimulating aerial view of Georgetown by Roraima Group of Companies. The contest will be the highlight of the fifth annual Wedding Expo, organised by Duke Lodge. Roraima’s marketing manager, Shamaine Davis said the trip was another way of ensuring that the other three couples who will not win the contest walk away with another memento, in addition to the Arrowpoint Nature Resort trip held on February 24. “The…
Read MoreDr Naresh Singh to take legal steps to salvage reputation
By Pushpa Balgobin – Dr Naresh Singh, the man who lost the prestigious deputy secretary general post of Caricom over allegations of unethical conduct while heading a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) programme, said he was speaking with lawyers to clear his name. He said that he will be actively pursuing avenues that will “let the public know what I stand for and have always stood for in both my professional and private life”. Dr Singh stated that his priority at this time was to clear his name “from the…
Read MoreA great loss
Caricom not taking sufficient advantage of its numerical strength
Former Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally said Caricom countries are not taking sufficient advantage of their numerical strength on the international stage. One problem, is that very often small states “are too concerned with keeping up with the Joneses and doing things like how X and Y are doing it, when we ought to be thinking for ourselves,” Insanally was quoted in the Trinidad Guardian as saying. Insanally, who has served in multiple high-level positions within the United Nations system, spoke on the issue at the St Augustine Campus of the…
Read MoreCheddi Jagan: Transformational leader
On March 6th, 16 years ago, Dr Cheddi Jagan was cremated at the foreshore of Babu John, not far from the village of Port Mourant where he spent his idyllic childhood, described so vividly in his classic, “The West on Trial”. From Berbice he proceeded to Queen’s College in Georgetown and then on to the USA, where he qualified as a dentist and returned to Georgetown during WWII. Today, there are some who answer in the negative as to whether he was a “transformational leader”. For them to answer that…
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