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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.

What a shame. The historic decision by Organization of American States chief Luis Almagro to call for an official regional discussion on Venezuela’s break with democratic rule may be derailed by a group of countries that say they support democracy, but are really buying time for the Venezuelan regime.

So far, we have carried two articles on the above subject.

By Nesha Zahoratul Haniff   Nesha Zahoratul Haniff is professor in the Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan.

Interviews and photos by Jonelle Fields and David Papannah This week we asked the man and woman in the street for their views on the City Council’s announced plan to install parking meters in Central Georgetown this year.

Conclusion Sustainable and harmonious planet In the previous two articles, the 17 SDGs were identified and the importance of addressing the issue of poverty was highlighted. 

It appears as if the Georgetown City Council has already decided in principle to install parking meters in Georgetown for the purpose of creating an additional source of revenue.

There is a never-ending battle against those who think – no, who are sure – they know what is best for us.

Hypothesized relationship A pressing question that arises from last week’s brief introduction to the forest transition hypothesis is whether it offers useful guidance as regards future trends in Guyana’s extractive forest sector.

When it comes to regional and hemispheric institutions, the Caribbean and Latin America have become a crowded space.

I was in Barbados performing some time ago and a young lady interviewed me and asked about my approach to music and to song-writing and arranging and so on.

“In all of history you cannot find another player with his long-lived discipline, vigour and ferocity,” Garry Kasparov, writing in Viktor Korchnoi’s autobiography Chess is my Life.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, Roger Seymour continues his initial look at the controversial subject of apartheid and cricket.

During the May/June rainy season here it’s also flu season. I’m sure many of you readers can agree that some of your loved ones, friends and/or co-workers have been bitten with the flu bug lately.