Guyanese Online Newsletter: July 2012
Download: 28 – Guyanese Online Newsletter – July 2012
This monthly newsletter is published on the last day of every month, with news and events for that month. About 70% of our readers live in the USA, Canada, and the UK, and 30-day Blog statistics for July show that the blog had 45,300 hits, from over 180 countries.
Guyanese Associations can advertise FREE in this newsletter and blog, so send in your information early. Companies can advertise at very low rates. Please write me at cybryan@gmail.com or guyaneseonline@gmail.com
This 28th issue has 27 pages. Here are the major news categories: List of top 20 most popular; July’s Blog Entries; Guyanese Associations News, Guest Editorial; Guyana’s Parliament and Governance; Agriculture, Forestry and Mining; Business; Education ; Medical News; Tourism; Arts and Cultural News; and Caribbean and Regional News. Some videos are also included
Your comments are welcome. Please put them on this Blog entry or e-mail me.
Have an enjoyable August at the various Guyanese and other events.
Cyril Bryan, Editor
Guyanese Online Blog and Newsletter
Comments
Good work, Bryan. Yes, it hurts to know what’s going on in Linden.Sometimes I want to go back to my poem: Not Wanting to be a Refugee (1984) published in the Indo Caribbean World ethnic newspaper in Toronto.
Back in those days
you boil coconut
for oil
and relish sardine
canooed across
the Atlantic
and teach
hungry kids
to sell sugar-cake…
each night
you become a vigilante.
Victor Ramraj ramraj@ucalgary.ca
6:52 PM (2 hours ago)
to me
Hi Cyril:
Love your newsletter…but I was taken aback by your negative editorial. And the fact that you produce such a wonderful, caring newsletter belies your negative tone. There is a range of great, warm people all across the spectrum in Guyana. In our comfortable life in North America we should lend support not undermine these struggling compatriots (and keep the right perspective — look at Syria). Incidentally I love the tone of Rahul Bhattacharya’s “The Company of…” He gives us Guyana warts and all but what a love he has for the land and people. It should be compulsory reading for Guyanese of all stripes. Victor
Dr. Victor J. Ramraj, Professor
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