Strike severely cuts power
THE state information agency GPCA yesterday reported the lightning electricity strike had shut down the Kingston power plant and output had dropped from about 27 to around 12 megawatts.
THE state information agency GPCA yesterday reported the lightning electricity strike had shut down the Kingston power plant and output had dropped from about 27 to around 12 megawatts.
BOAT builders are a dying breed in Guyana, but Peter Mendonca, the Bissoon brothers, Sona, Mohan and Narine and their Father Chaitram say that they intend to make the trade their career.
‘Equity thus depending, essentially, upon the particular circumstances of each individual case, there can be no established rules and fixed precepts of equity laid down, without destroying its very essence, and reducing it to a positive law.
By D Alissa Trotz Alissa Trotz is Editor of the In the Diaspora Column I was up at 12.34 am on Sunday morning when I received word that Fidel Castro, 90 years old, had died in Havana.
COOPERS or vat makers are still around and some people still go for the wooden water containers.
Private investors in the promising eco-tourism subsector yesterday launched the Tourism Association of Guyana (TAG) and its first elected president Tony Thorne says tourist markets in North America and Europe will be targeted “to put Guyana back on the world map”.
Today is Budget Day. It is an important day since it is the first time in the history of Post-Independence Guyana, and perhaps earlier, that we are having a budget for the fiscal year before the beginning of the year begins.
Interviews and photos by Dreylan Johnson and David Papannah This week we asked the man/woman in the street about their eating habits; whether they consider their diets to be healthy, what they can do to improve it and if a family history of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension influences their diet in any way.
After visiting Central Mackenzie, the World Beyond Georgetown continued on to Speightland, which is just past the old Aluminium Factory.
The Gray Kingbird is a large flycatcher with a black face mask, gray upperparts and mostly white underparts.
Being able to identify the policy changes that will transform the future is normally far from easy.
Pachira aquatica commonly called Chinese Money Tree originated in East Asia: Japan, Taiwan and China.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Capital assets In less than one week, trading in the Guyana Stock Market will enter the final month of the year.
Growing up, Popeye the Sailorman was one of my favourite cartoons.
Introduction Today’s column furthers the discussion of the fiscal break-even price for crude oil.
The world woke up to the news yesterday that Fidel Castro had died.
Last week I discussed in detail about the macronutrient: protein and following the publication, I got an email questioning whether or not protein shakes are best for meal replacement.
I do not like reminiscing about the old days; that immediately marks you as entering your dotage.
In recent days, I made a brief appearance in Orlando hosting a Caribbean American Passport Connection (CAPC) function honouring Guyanese immigrants who had made important contributions to Florida.
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