Preparing Guyanese youth for 21st century economic development

September 3, 2021

Foreword

Contemporary accounts and discussions of a society’s key issues or concerns are an invaluable source that allows a unique opportunity to go back in time and experience vicariously, aspects of that community’s history, often from the perspective of the actors.

Friday January 23, 2009

The function of a leader is to lead — a truism made starker even by quick appraisal of effective leaders we know. Gandhi’s leadership was strategic, reflective, always finely considered. Never suffering fools gladly, he was yet compassionate, firm.

Friday | October 16, 2009

Every now and then I re-read works of enduring value. One such is Edmund Burke’s “Reflec­tions on the Revolution in France”. The title, much longer when first published, provides context for his opposition to the French revolution.

Wednesday | September 25, 1985

On reaching the shores of England, embarked on the train journey on their way to the city, one of Lamming’s Emigrants remarks:

Sunday | October 6, 1996

It finally happened. Panic followed rumour, in a general atmosphere of distrust of our financial system. The widespread, concentrated run on Citizens Bank was perhaps not predictable, it was however not surprising.

Wednesay | January 16, 2002

For the uninitiated, an early morning visit — 5:30 a.m. — to Coronation Market, is a revelation!