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Why are men pouting?
During my work as an advocate for women, I cannot even begin to count the number of times a man has asked me, “What about the men?” Although I am a staunch believer in gender equality, this phrase always catches me off guard because it is an ironic question in so many ways.

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.

Abortion rights and wrongs
I have never written about abortion before because I attempt to steer clear of polarising subjects.

PPP/C has an historic opportunity to create a better framework for our governance
“I mean, since David Granger opposed Nagamootoo because, ipso facto, the defecting may very well be a ‘spy job’ in the making, then what exempts Trotman from that kind of suspicion (from the rest of the lot)? Mr.

Why can’t I buy a damn car?
Everything was going swimmingly.

Opposition made huge blunder
Notwithstanding all the opposition talk of seeking to create a new political culture in Guyana, its recent antics are as old as the hills, but the PPP/C is not without fault and should not use the opposition’s faux pas to prevent us from moving forward in a timely and efficacious manner.

Democracy in distress
Dominique Moisi is the author of The Geopolitics of Emotion.

Calling all men!
Lately, I have been reading about men around the world who are taking some dramatic steps to fight for women’s rights.

Rotating speaker is a good suggestion
The current discourse about the election of a speaker for our new National Assembly has been variously described and assessed but here I will discuss the opportunity it presents us to identify and contemplate some important issues, the nature of which are likely to stay with us as we go forward in the present political context.

Violence will not stop women from being free
This is my first column for the year and as such, I would like to address a topic that is always close to my heart, violence against women.

Wishing away Mayor Green and his Councillors
On Old Year’s Night some of the church-going citizens of Georgetown were reportedly heard praying urgently that on the stroke of midnight a brisk breeze would descend on the capital and that all of the garbage in the city would be caught up….

Wonder what 2012 will bring?
We enter a new year with a new President though it has to be said that that is where the newness stops.

Parental engagement can make big difference to a child’s life chances
“The literature suggests that among the non-school factors of school achievement like socioeconomic background, parent’s educational attainment, family structure, ethnicity and parental involvement, it is the latter which is the most strongly connected to attainment.