Don’t out yourself in harm’s way
Once again we are hearing the loud voice of opposition leader Robert Corbin on the issue of death in Buxton.
He is calling for independent investigations surrounding the deaths of two Buxtonions.
Corbin must be reminded that those eye witnesses in Buxton will only give evidence to their favourite news media and not to any investigation team.
Corbin […]
The Development of Buxton Revealed
THIS article primarily focuses on the PPP/C initiatives in the development and uplift of living conditions in Buxton. Many political propagandists are like wild fire trying to make out a mystical case that under the PPP/C administration Buxton was ignored and did not receive its fair share of the National Development pie.
Reliving fond memories of Growing up in Buxton
GROWING UP in Buxton in the early 50s was as fun-filled for Husman Khan and his three young brothers as it was for other children their age being raised at the time in any other countryside community outside of Georgetown.
Now a medical doctor living in the United States of America for more than 30 years, […]
Buxton find! A glow of hope
The recent find of the skeletal remains of a man’s body by the Joint Services brings back chilling memories of the past - one which we would have wished never happened, but on the positive side provides a glow of hope that we may be closer to unravelling the intrigues and mysteries surrounding the deaths […]
BRINGING CLOSURE TO A LOST HOPE, SHATTERED DREAMS
Almost three years since sugar workers disappeared
- wives, children look to backlands clearing for answers and possible closure to their never-ending search for missing loved ones
IT has been almost three dark, desolate, distressing years since Maikhram Sawh and Sampersaud Taranauth mysteriously disappeared in the volatile and dangerous East Coast Demerara backlands.
Residents, relatives of massacre victims looking to God for guidance during Thanksgiving Service
AMIDST their fears and tears, the people of Lusignan yesterday demonstrated courage and affirmed faith in God as the source who can take them through their trials and tribulations.
The occasion was a Thanksgiving service held at the home of the Thomas’ family – three of whose members were brutally slain, and two others severely wounded […]
Lusignan residents still grappling to move on
- progress pegged back by haunting memories, fear of the dark
THE families affected by the January 26 Lusignan massacre said they are “bracing themselves” and “trying to hold-up” in the wake of the tragic loss of their loved ones seventeen days ago. But even as they do this, the entire Lusignan community is sounding a […]
I’m missing something
Perhaps I am missing something here? What does the Region Four Chairman have to do with the negotiation between the Government and Buxtonian farmers for compensation for the Government clearing their land so that people may be able to see the gunmen before they arrive in the village?
Our African ancestors must be turning in their graves
The patrimony that was inherited by the descendants of enterprising former slaves, who evolved from an ethos of dehumanization unparalleled in the history of humankind, who had saved guilder by guilder to purchase lands in order to create villages and communities and family structures that had been denied them by the slave-owners, to whom slaves […]
Situation demands clearing of Buxton backlands
IT is baffling to see how some people are using the clearing of the lands aback of Buxton to create mischief, sow seeds of discord and reap political benefits.
Clearly these people are not patriots and as such do not have the interest and future of this nation at heart.
