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The World beyond Georgetown:La Bonne Intention
y Roxanne Clarke with photos by Anjuli PersaudLa Bonne Intention familiarly known as LBI is a village located on the East Coast of Demerara.
New faces in Parliament: Christopher Jones APNU
This is the fifth in our series on new parliamentariansA Partnership for National Unit (APNU) parliamentarian Christopher Jones will be pushing for a national youth policy which would seeks to create meaningful activities for young people to.
If Mitt Romney was in Guyana, his 13.9% tax rate would have been lower
IntroductionIf Governor Mitt Romney, a leading candidate for the Republican nomination in the US 2012 presidential elections thought that he would neutralise the attacks by his fellow candidates by publicising his 2010 tax returns, he was wrong.
Re-thinking education
I hope the young, intelligent and energetic Minister who has been put in charge of education in the country takes a fresh look at what needs to be done.
Tax reform 3: The taxes we pay
IntroductionThe mindset of five major groups of stakeholders to the tax reform process (individual taxpayers; the law-making authorities; the public at large as beneficiaries of government spending; the tax administration authorities; corporate and other business taxpayers; as well as organisations like unions, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and professional associations interested in greater transparency, fairness and efficiency in the tax system) have been briefly described in my two previous columns.
Events off the coast of Italy should be a wakeup call for the Caribbean
Caribbean governments, tourist boards and hoteliers are no strangers to the difficulties of dealing with the cruise lines when it comes to issues that touch their loosely regulated but highly profitable industry.
Preparation is lacking
Several weeks ago, I wrote a column entitled ‘Knowing the fine fine‘ on the point that to understand the why and the how and the where of conditions in a country you have to live there a long time in order to begin to see all the factors, many invisible, that are operating on the particular aspect that’s bugging you – garbage in town; speeding minibuses; shoddy workmanship, etc.
Obama shouldn’t ignore the war next door
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Barack Obama talked about the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, but didn’t say a word about a war that is taking place next door, and that is killing more people than the others: the drug-related war in Mexico and Central America.
Chetwin Moriah: Antenna-maker
Thirty-eight year old antenna maker Chetwin Moriah has been making antennas for the past 20 years.
Ailments of the musculoskeletal system
ContinuedSprains and strainsLast week, I mentioned that lameness is a symptom, an expression of some deeper malady.
The Romantic and the Modern in a Hardy poem
The Darking ThrushI leant upon a coppice gateWhen Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter’s dregs made desolateThe weakening eye of dayThe tangled bine-stems scored the skyLike strings of broken lyres,And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.
Sisters helping sisters: Stella Ramsaroop talks about S4
The burning desire to create an avenue for Guyanese women to unite and work together in addressing the many ills that affect them is behind newspaper columnist Stella Ramsaroop’s move .
Puma
With golden eyes and a tawny, golden colour the Puma (Puma concolor), is a long legged, rangy cat which ranges from North America to the tip of South America and exists at elevations up to 4,500 m, hence the name “mountain lion.
Naipaul plus love
By Brendan de CairesThe Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2011.
The World Beyond Georgetown: Lovely Lass
The predominately African-Guyanese village of Lovely Lass, West Coast Berbice, seemed quiet during a midday visit with most of the residents busy trying to get chores done.