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Big investments, little hope?
From my teenaged years, through adulthood to my current pre-seventies, a word associated with my Guyana, which I’ve long been impatient with, is “potential.
Social agitation and the national conscience – the plight of innocent kids
Nine boys and their families, maybe more, live today as victims of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of someone they trusted and emulated.
PPP/C regime axed Kissoon simply because it believed it could!
Recently, Newt Gingrich criticised President Obama for being too nuanced in his policy-making and Fareed Zakaria, on one of his CNN programmes, rightly wondered why being nuanced should be criticised.
Special needs children are gifts wrapped in a different package
Hot Momma’s Advice: Different, not less.
Afghanistan’s terrorized women
Mohammad Musa Mahmodi is Executive Director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Freddie Kissoon’s dismissal: The dictatorial actions of an insecure political elite
By Arif Bulkan, Alissa Trotz & Nigel WestmaasAs the editorial in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek noted, just two months ago there appeared to be speculation that Freddie Kissoon, lecturer at the University of Guyana for 26 years and one of the most popular and controversial newspaper columnists in the country, was being targeted for the termination of his teaching contract.
What Lindeners say about:Priorities for the new regional council
The 7th council of the Regional Democratic Council of Region 10 was installed last week and a new Chairman and Vice Chairman were elected to serve.
The World beyond Georgetown:La Bonne Intention
y Roxanne Clarke with photos by Anjuli PersaudLa Bonne Intention familiarly known as LBI is a village located on the East Coast of Demerara.
New faces in Parliament: Christopher Jones APNU
This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentariansA Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to.
If Mitt Romney was in Guyana, his 13.9% tax rate would have been lower
IntroductionIf Governor Mitt Romney, a leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the US 2012 presidential elections thought that he would neutralise the attacks by his fellow candidates by publicising his 2010 tax returns, he was wrong.
Re-thinking education
I hope the young, intelligent and energetic Minister who has been put in charge of education in the country takes a fresh look at what needs to be done.
Tax reform 3: The taxes we pay
IntroductionThe mindset of five major groups of stakeholders to the tax reform process (individual taxpayers; the law-making authorities; the public at large as beneficiaries of government spending; the tax administration authorities; corporate and other business taxpayers; as well as organisations like unions, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and professional associations interested in greater transparency, fairness and efficiency in the tax system) have been briefly described in my two previous columns.
Events off the coast of Italy should be a wakeup call for the Caribbean
Caribbean governments, tourist boards and hoteliers are no strangers to the difficulties of dealing with the cruise lines when it comes to issues that touch their loosely regulated but highly profitable industry.
Preparation is lacking
Several weeks ago, I wrote a column entitled ‘Knowing the fine fine‘ on the point that to understand the why and the how and the where of conditions in a country you have to live there a long time in order to begin to see all the factors, many invisible, that are operating on the particular aspect that’s bugging you – garbage in town; speeding minibuses; shoddy workmanship, etc.
Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama talked about the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, but didn’t say a word about a war that is taking place next door, and that is killing more people than the others: the drug-related war in Mexico and Central America.