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PAGE 3: Thanksgiving 2014 PAGE 4-12: GCA Symposium in Guyana PAGE 14: Patterns of Guyanese Immigrants in NY PAGE 15-16: Guyana and international education PAGE 17: Remembering Muriel Glasgow PAGE 18-30: 170th anniversary of QC PAGE 33-35: The Women of Queen’s College PAGE 36-37: OSHAG’s Mission to Guyana
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Settlement Patterns of Guyanese Immigrants in New York: A Perspective
By Lear Matthews
New York City Boroughs Map
Reaction to the recent announcement by the president of the United States on the status of millions of immigrants is quite revealing. What has been a topic of some national importance has become a highly charged, simmering social issue churned by politics, economics and sentiments relating to ethnocentric ideals. The outcome of the Executive Action will affect some Caribbean immigrants among others, but a few who are eligible, may be understandably hesitant to take advantage of correcting their undocumented status.
This article does not address the ramifications of the president’s administrative relief. However, because the topic of immigration is on the front burner, this is an opportune time to share an important dimension of Guyanese immigrants’ experience, i.e. their settlement patterns in New York, particularly since they comprise the 5th largest immigrant group in New York City (Jamaicans being the 4th largest). Continue reading
Hands Up Don’t Shoot – Justice for Mike Brown
Ferguson – Missouri – USA – November 2014
Photo Credit: Scott Olson / Getty Images
For millennia, humankind has been plagued with some form of inequality among its populations. As our societies grew, increased in complexity, and became globalized, so did the nature and degree of inequality.
Like a living human organism, inequality has a gender, race, ethnicity, and class that determine income and wealth disparities. To make matters worse, inequality dictates our access to a home, education, healthcare, and protection under our justice system.
Faced with racial inequality, the majority African-American community of Ferguson, Missouri, has received no justice for Mike Brown, an eighteen-year-old black male killed by a white policeman in August 2014.
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Ms Eileen Rosaline Cox passed away today, Saturday. November 28, 2014 at 12.18 p.m. at age 96.She died peacefully at her home on First Avenue, Subryanville, Georgetown, Guyana. Her only child, international author Sharon Westmaas who lives in Germany, and grandson Miro Westmaas were present. The late Eileen Cox was the daughter of Walter Cox and Mirriam Ruth Cox (nee Wight) and sister of the late Leila Marie Hale, Elma Freda Small and Percy Cox. She was the aunt of Mirri Halder. Eileen had been married to David Westmaas.
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Here is an article on Eileen Cox written in March 2010.
“I am fearless. I have no relatives who would be victimised because of what I say or do. I criticise whomever, whenever it is prudent to do so. I have criticised the police for excesses; I have stuck my neck out for defenceless consumers and I nurture no fear.”
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Guyana: Capitol TV News Reports – 28 November 2014
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Ombudsman officially reports on NBS trio report confirms men no way connected to fraud
Posted: 28 Nov 2014 02:09 PM PST Continue reading
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is a strange outfit. Only God can actually tell a Guyanese how the DEA operates with regard to its surveillance in Guyana. There are times you want to believe that Guyana is not on the DEA radar at all, or that the DEA has little interest in extirpating drug trafficking and money laundering in this country. It could be that the DEA is not the formidable and competent organization that the world thinks it is.
In Guyana, the average limer across a “110th Street” (a term in local lingo, taken from the famous Anthony Quinn movie on police racism and drug trafficking in the ghetto titled, across 110th Street), the inner core of Georgetown, knows who the drug traffickers and money launderers are. Continue reading
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? Continue reading
Update from Moray House Trust- November 2014 for Guyanese Online
Waldyke Prince
In October 2014, two presentations at Moray House Trust highlighted the raw and unspoilt beauty of much of Guyana. First, veteran local bird-guide and wildlife biologist, Waldyke (Wally) Prince outlined the possibilities for birding tourism in Guyana. With close to 900 species of birds in Guyana, including 284 in Georgetown, this is more of a realistic prospect than some might imagine. Prince has led expeditions of professional birders, documentary teams and scientific research for many years.
Shell Beach, Lake Mainstay, Hope Beach and the Abary River are just some of the coastal birding hot spots identified.
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Guyana: Capitol TV News Reports – 27 November 2014
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Pilot claims he forgot he had US$600,000 on his jet Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:09 PM PST
Questions raised about Exec Jets operations at CJIA Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:08 PM PST
AFC wants full investigation into operations of Exec Jets Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:07 PM PST
Small miners bemoan state of gold industry Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:06 PM PST
Sports Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:00 PM PST
