Daily Features

Now that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro seems to be closing all avenues for a peaceful resolution of his country’s crisis, the international community should put some serious pressure on him to allow a constitutional referendum this year.

Interviews and photos by Dreylan Johnson and David Papannah   Given Guyana’s recent oil find and preparations to begin exploiting it in five years the man and woman in the street were asked to say what areas should be focused on and what projects should be embarked on by the government once Guyana begins receiving revenue from oil.

Over the last four years, this column has been scrutinizing the various financial papers that have been submitted to the National Assembly for approval.

Photos by Joanna Dhanraj This village is the third of the same name that the World Beyond Georgetown has visited.

Questioning of the Minister of Health by opposition members last Monday on an item seeking approval for $31,080,000, revealed that the sum was intended as expenses for renting a bond for the storage of pharmaceuticals.

At the end of July eleven individuals received jail sentences in Havana of between 15 to 30 years for attempting to traffic narcotics into Cuba from Jamaica.

Introduction Today’s column closes the discussion we are having on production of timber and non-timber products in Guyana’s extractive forest sector over the past decade (2006-2015).

Complex technology When someone examines global trade statistics, one thing that jumps out at the reader is the difference in export revenues between primary commodities and manufactured goods. 

Almost four decades ago, a then 17-year-old Charmaine Stuart fell in love with the Guyana Police Force’s ‘Band Complex,’ as she not only got to be involved in music—her heart’s desire—but “the discipline” involved in it.

One of my earliest awareness moments upon my return to live in Guyana (I have mentioned it before) took place in a visit to a major hardware store in Georgetown in search of some half-inch bolts to secure the posts of a wood fence.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the forgotten scoreboard from the 1981 Shell Shield Match between Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

T20 cricket, the way it has developed, is unbalanced in favour of batsmen.

One thing you need to get into your mind is that fitness results don’t happen by chance.

The term ‘fried’ in this recipe refers to the style of cooking we Guyanese employ when we talk about cooking vegetables – fried pumpkin, fried callaloo etc.

Mandevilla, a tropical beauty commonly called Rock Trumpet, originated in the forest of Brazil and comes from the Apocynaceae family Most Mandevilla species are also native to Central and South America Mandevilla was named after a British diplomat and gardener Henry Mandeville, who came across the species in this continent in the 18th century.

Following six rounds of scintillating chess, the Sinquefield Cup is off to a brilliant start in St Louis, Missouri.

The Least Grebe is a very small waterbird often found near freshwater ponds and marshes. 

The first time I was confronted with the reality of child sexual abuse was during my early teens.

This is brevity today. I promise. But every ten months or so I find reasonable cause to comment on our local trade unionism.

The silence is noticeably deafening. After all it’s very late Sunday, close to midnight, in a rather serious suburb in  northern western Trinidad, when I hear the shout from down Upper Conaree, “Where my Warriors family…?.”