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During a three-hour presentation to the National Assembly, Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday unveiled a $142.8B budget, which is expected to be significantly funded …
Construction worker electrocuted at worksite -two others injured
$9.9B budgeted to fuel sugar recovery -lower rice yield expected
Part-time technical institute lecturers vow to stay on strike
Gov’t announces mobile police station – forensic lab in the works
By Marlon Munroe
West Indies most successful captain Clive Hubert Lloyd has urged batsmen in the national cricket team to put a premium on their wickets …
By Peter R. Ramsaroop, MBA
If yuh plant plantain, yuh can’t reap cassava. (You reap what you sow) Guyanese Proverb
Overview
In a previous column on November, 23, …
By Honor Ford-Smith
The first time I met Rex Nettleford was when he came to our Kingston High school in 1968 around the time of the …
In years past, hearing outside about my country’s difficulties, I would come home to Guyana with Tradewinds to play music, or just to visit, always …
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Guyana’s Republican status and 40 years of celebrating Mashramani. Stabroek News asked the man and woman in the …
An eight-page, abridged version of Ram & McRae’s Focus on the 2010 Budget will appear in Thursday’s Stabroek News.
Introduction
The Minister of Finance has announced …
Local government elections are coming later this year, possibly as early as April. Then the big one, another general election, is due next year. I …
I trust that readers who have been following my rather extended discussion on lessons to be learnt from the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Conference will …
By Dr Amit Verma, MD (Anaesthesiology)
The word anaesthesia comes from a Greek word meaning absence of sensation. Anaesthesia is one of the most significant developments …
A landlord refuses to allow her tenant to install a meter in his apartment. The GPL bill covers both the landlord and tenant’s use of …
The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Just so in …
It is a remarkable quality of poetry that it is inexhaustible. Good poems are capable of new revelations, presenting you with new discoveries, fresh ideas …
Phyllis Carter,
December 9, 1932 – January 28, 2010
Phyllis Carter, née Howard, widow of the National Poet Martin Carter and member of the Committees of …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne
Pearl Lewis also known as ‘Precious Pearl’ is fighting to win this year’s calypso crown but she is also fighting to boot a …
Culture Box
As a little girl, I tramped through endless slushy mud during the rainy seasons on weekday mornings. After the mud, I waded through crater-like …
Demonstration driven by fear of official moves to reduce small-scale mining activity
Bartica this week handed the government of President Bharrat Jagdeo the first major non-political …
Cites stable exchange rate, fiscal soundness
Despite “poor sugar and rice harvests” which resulted in a significant contraction in the performance of Guyana’s agricultural sector, the …
Cervical Cancer is the second most prevalent cancer in women worldwide and one of the leading causes of death among women in developing countries. The …
Interviewee: Dr. Vilma Perez, former assistant consultant Cancer Institute of Guyana
GR: How high is the incidence of Cervical Cancer in Guyana?
Dr. P: It is the …
