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Friday, March 29, 2024

The Indian Guyanese aesthetic

By Ryhaan Shah Ganga Ship 1917: The Long Journey" is a visual arts exhibition that celebrates the Indian Guyanese aesthetic on this historic centenary of...

“GARV AUR IZZAT”

  In my remarks at the event held at the National Cultural Centre (NCC) on March 3, to mark the centenary of the abolition of...

Our Jahajins’ Journey

Onboard the first ship, the SS Whitbywhich landed at Highbury on the Berbice River on May 5, 1838, there were 166 men and six...

Sugar & sacrifice

  Except for the country’s First Nations, we are all here because of sugar. Our fore parents’ arrival on May 5, 1838 was the first...

For a mass protest

Everybody is fed-up with one thing or another. The positives that were expected from the change of government have come to absolute naught and...

Park the Meters!

  Our once bustling city centre has become a ghost town thanks to the Mayor and City Council (M&CC). Had they done any surveys to...

The nationalist agenda

  The world is looking on in amazement at the uproar in the United States that has followed President Donald Trump’s executive order, which denies...

THE “UGLY AMERICAN”

By Ryhaan Shah The “ugly American” is a term often used to refer to American citizens, most often abroad, who are loud, brash, arrogant, ignorant...

Is oil Guyana’s curse?

By Ryhaan Shah I am one of the six nominees for the GECOM chairmanship who has been rejected by President David Granger as not being...

ACTIONS & CONSEQUENCES

  Four African American youths, three teenagers and an adult, face felony charges in Chicago for the alleged kidnapping and assault of an 18-year-old white,...