Daily Features

We face two possible futures: either the default future we stumble into, or a created future we design and shape.

Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.

The aim of sound diplomacy … is the maintenance of amicable relations between sovereign states.

By Dr. Lesley de Souza Dr. de Souza holds a two-year postdoctoral research position at the Chicago based Shedd Aquarium, that continues Shedd’s research in  Guyana’s North Rupununi region, where intensive fieldwork is needed to assess and protect the area’s rich aquatic biodiversity.

Last week, we began a discussion of Financial Paper 1/2014 that the Minister of Finance presented to the National Assembly three Thursdays ago.

Interviews and photos by Desilon Daniels This week we asked the man and woman in the street what they thought about the recent results of the National Grade Six Assessment examination.

Early days These might be early days to be discussing the results of the census taken in 2012, but the population decline may have dashed the hopes of the government to brag about its handling of the economy and the economic development of the nation.

Introduction Thus far I have identified two of what have been described in the economic literature as the “four essential roles or functions governments perform in the economy.”

Contempt such as Ambassador Hardt is accused of in relation to the Head of State is a serious matter.

President Barack Obama’s vow to take executive actions to fix the immigration system and stem the avalanche of Central American children migrants to the United States is good news, but I’m afraid it will only be a Band-Aid approach, which won’t address the key issue: keeping Central American kids in school.

I do not think the young, intelligent and opened-minded Minister of Education will mind me delivering again a little, well-meant lecture to her.

Uzbekistan was catapulted into the chess world when one of its nationals, nine-year-old Nodirbek Abdusattorov, beat a FIDE rated 2600 chess grandmaster, Andrei Zhigalko, in the first round of a local tournament.

Living in the Caribbean it is quite possible to imagine that the world sees the region and its economic fortunes in an unchanging light.

Continued from last week We have already established that there are several types of skin cancer which can affect dogs/cats.

Mentha, commonly called mint, originated from the Mediterranean and belongs to the Lamiaceae family.

By Jaswant Singh  NEW DELHI – Iraq seems to be falling apart, with the rapid advance of the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threatening to lead to the country’s division into Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish entities, while blurring its border with its turbulent western neighbor.

This week, it is another recipe of cooking chicken twice. Well, technically, it is starting the cooking process on the stovetop and then finishing it off in the oven.

 The following is an edited version of a tribute given by Major General (rtd) Joseph G Singh at St Andrew’s Kirk, Georgetown, on June 26.

Last month, I travelled to Buxton to stand in solidarity with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community as they protested the detention of a 15-year-old who was locked up following a fracas in which he was booked by police as both aggressor and the victim.

-Our 2014 “Summer” has arrived   These brief notes on my lead subject are occasioned by both my involvement in and with a Non- Government, Civil Society Public Policy Group and two recent letters to the Press.