Daily Features

-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.

Our role as Guyanese prepare to usher in a Guyanese Knowledge Society in this global Knowledge Age of a new global village interconnected through digital media is to cultivate the love for self-development in each citizen.

People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Members of the National Assembly can display reckless irresponsibility in their statements in the House.

Arguably the most important issue raised in Mr. David Granger’s independence sojourn in New York was his statement of the kind of governance he would like to see developed in Guyana, and in my view, unless we want to unwittingly end up in an autocracy worse than any we have had so far, the Leader of the Opposition had better make his position much clearer and we had better pay attention to it.

Since independence several third or independent parties – UF, WPA, ROAR, GAP/ROAR and AFC – have won enough votes to have seats in Parliament, but none was able to win the election outright.

This year marks the centenary of the First World War, which officially started on July 28, 1914.

(Guest Contribution)   Do you sometimes do something or say something and wonder, “What in the world did I just say (or do)?”

We begin our discussion of Financial Paper 1/2014 that the Minister of Finance tabled in the National Assembly two Thursdays ago.

Editor’s Note: Last week we carried Hilbourne Watson’s response to a recent essay in which Prime Minister of St.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah    Although commuters have found the Berbice River Bridge quite convenient, they are finding it difficult to pay the high toll and passenger fares.

Many of the millions of us who watched the Mexico-Croatia game a few days ago asked ourselves the same questions when the umpire failed to call an obvious penalty kick for the Mexican team: are some of these World Cup matches fixed?

Introduction Last week’s column ended my extended presentation on the state of the sugar industry, which had begun on January 5 of this year.

AFC Vice Chair, Moses Nagamootoo, announced that his party was contemplating a motion of no confidence against the government.

Trying to describe the overall outcome of the Eighth UK-Caribbean Forum, the biennial government to government dialogue that took place in London on June 16-17, is far from easy.

If ever a country needed more civility in the discourse conducted between its political and other leaders it is Guyana now.

Public good The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG) has proposed a hike in the tuition fees to be paid by students of the university.

World champion Magnus Carlsen has won three coveted chess titles, making him the World Champion in the classical or conventional format, as well as in the rapid and blitz formats.

Have you ever thought of growing your own kitchen herbs in pots or window boxes?

Saag Aloo is a North Indian vegetarian dish made of any type of leafy greens and potatoes.

In the Sunday Stabroek two weeks ago (June 15), artist Stanley Greaves wrote about Roderick ‘Bermine’ Bartrum, who passed away recently.