Daily Features

By Maurice Tomlinson Maurice Tomlinson is a Jamaican attorney at law and senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. 

This is the fourth in a series of articles on public financial management in Guyana’s post-Independence period.

Bryan Hunt has proven that you don’t have to dress like a diplomat to excel at being one.

Recently I read two poems which I want to share without much commentary – partly because they speak for themselves.

Introduction At present, several prominent geographers and forest analysts give strong support to the forest transition hypothesis, which I have been evaluating in recent weeks.

Projected growth The World Bank has revised its projections for the global economy for 2016. 

When Beverley Ann Munesar found out last year that she had breast cancer, she accepted it as a challenge that she was prepared to fight and win.

It is clear from a recent visit to Washington that there is a renewed interest in the Caribbean and that its concerns are back on the US agenda. 

At 17 years old, Michael (not his real name) is very optimistic about his future and he has vowed to make himself an honest man and to be a real father to any children he might ever have, even though all of the odds seem to be stacked against him.

Sometimes, and particularly in a country such as ours with no organized screening programme, prostate cancer is detected late.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour reflects on his boyhood batting hero Alvin Kallicharran.

Cordyline commonly called Red Dragon or Ti Plant originated in Australia, the Pacific and tropical America.

There was a promising time in Guyana following the creation of the chess association in the early 1970s, when the nation benefited from men who demonstrated commitment to the game, integrity, and polish.

This is food made fast not fast food. I make garlicky green plantains often and most of the times I eat it just like that.

It’s wedding season and it will soon segue into ‘summer’ vacation season.

Sunday’s Cartoon

Common sense tells us that the warmer the climate, less clothing is practical while the colder the climate the more.

A brief visit to two of Georgetown’s Magistrates Courts was enough to re-trigger my years-long consideration of local administrators of legal justice in our homeland.

In the run up to the 2015 elections the talk among the APNU+AFC hierarchy was that they expected to win by about three seats, but as it turned out they won by less than one.

In recent months several international commentators have called for central banks in emerging market economies to hold a higher percentage of gold as part of foreign exchange (FX) reserves.