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Sacking of Shiv is distressing,says Dr Roopnarin
Narper
2015-05-28 18:08:38
Minister of Education with responsibility for Sport, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine, has described the sacking of veteran Guyanese
Education Minister, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine: “The manner of his going really does no justice to the manner of his performance over the years, and what he has meant to us”
Education Minister, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine: “
“The manner of his going really does no justice to the manner of his performance over the years, and what he has meant to us,” Minister Roopnaraine said of the unceremonial and abrupt end to the cricketing career of Chanderpaul, who spent over two decades playing for the West Indies.
“I think that the response of the Guyana Cricket Board was heartedly robust. It clearly is a decision that we in Guyana feel distressed about. Chanderpaul has for so long been a titan on the cricketing scene in the Caribbean and it is difficult right now to even imagine a West Indian team without Chanderpaul,” Minister Roopnaraine said.
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goofballs
2015-05-28 18:23:29
In reply to Narper
One major step nearer to Granger Magic happening.
Only Granger can save cricket,
Guyana
Caricom
World Peace.
Just push one button, tell Lloyd to rest his ass lil bit or have the Hammer Green take care of him.
Rest would be like stealing candy from children.
Emir
2015-05-28 18:23:40
goofballs
2015-05-28 18:39:19
maidavale
2015-05-28 20:22:46
In reply to goofballs
Only a call from Granger to Lloyd can give Shiv a reprieve. Roopnarine had better orchestrate and make himself useful.
googley
2015-05-29 09:59:14
maidavale
2015-05-29 10:09:15
In reply to googley
Yes, I saw that. He's emboldened.
goofballs
2015-05-29 11:00:04
In reply to maidavale
This Roopnarine fella, was he a match teacher at UG?
goofballs
2015-05-29 11:12:09
In reply to goofballs
Cancel dat.
Wiki.
The man has some idea of cricket, and is a QC boy.
In 1954, he won a scholarship to Queen's College, where he excelled in cricket; he captained the team and represented Demerara in the Inter-county Cricket Finals. In 1962 he was awarded a Guyana scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, where he studied Modern Languages. He played first-class cricket for the Cambridge University team from 1964 to 1966 and was awarded a Blue for representing the university in the annual University Match against Oxford in 1965 and 1966.[1] As a cricketer, he was a lower order right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler.
goofballs
2015-05-29 11:14:18
Chunilall was the Math teacher with corny jokes.
maidavale
2015-05-29 11:14:19
In reply to goofballs
I don't know about a match teacher, but he wasn't a maths teacher. Dem boys seh he is a Lit prof.
goofballs
2015-05-29 11:17:56
In reply to maidavale
I saw in Wiki. Remembered him vaguely.
People like Rodney, Clive Thomas, Ramsammy were more in the forefront.
maidavale
2015-05-29 11:22:19
In reply to goofballs
Strange to see him now with the PNC in his old age given the WPA history.
tigga
2015-05-29 12:26:36
In reply to Narper
Rass Narps - now you justifying why FullaPoo quoting Freddie K
NineMiles
2015-05-29 16:59:36
In reply to Narper
I hope y'all get really distressed bad.... couldn't happen to a better bunch of fuckheads !! 
Narper
2015-05-29 18:50:25
In reply to tigga
You think Freddie in Dr Rupert Roopnarine's class?
I used to know loud mout Freddie...even back den he was an A hole...a wannabe revolutionary....he even tried out with Maurice Bishop in Grenada...when Bishop was murdered by his own colleagues...Freddie put his tail between his legs and head back to Mudland....Even the Canadian government put a ban on he skunt....you believe Freddie could have behaved like he does today...under Burnham? Monkey know which limb to climb on
In 1962 he was awarded a Guyana scholarship to attend the University of Cambridge, where he studied Modern Languages.In 1970 he was awarded a scholarship to Cornell University, New York, where he obtained an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature. From 1976 to 1996, he has worked as a university lecturer in the UK, Canada, the US and at the University of Guyana
He joined the Working People's Alliance (WPA) in 1977 and quickly became one of the leaders of the party, along with Walter Rodney, Clive Thomas and Eusi Kwayana. He was an activist politician and at the height of the years of People's National Congress (PNC) repression was arrested on charges of burning down the PNC headquarters. He also narrowly escaped death when he was attacked by PNC party thugs, only reaching safety with the help of sugarcane workers who led him through the cane fields to escape. After the assassination of Walter Rodney, Roopnaraine became leader of the WPA. He has been a member of the Guyanese parliament for many years, with a virtually unique reputation for the incorruptible representation of people across all racial groups.
He is unquestionably one of the leading Caribbean intellectuals of his generation, though political activism has restricted his output. Nevertheless, he is an outstanding art critic (champion of the work of Stanley Greaves), literary critic (author of a pioneering essay on Martin Carter), film-maker (The Terror and the Time) and poet. He is the author of The Web of October: Rereading Martin Carter (1986), a suite of love poems entitled Suite for Supriya (1993), and Primacy of the Eye: The Art of Stanley Greaves was published in 2003. Roopnaraine also contributed a substantial "Introduction" to the Peepal Tree Press 2010 edition of Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move Among Them.
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Dan_De_Lyan
2015-05-29 22:52:18
In reply to goofballs
was he a match teacher at UG
UG teach people to set fire...
black
2015-05-29 22:55:43
In reply to Dan_De_Lyan
UG teach people to set fire...
