The Sustainable Development Goals Part 2
Higher knowledge In the column of last week, the 17 goals for sustainable development were identified.
Higher knowledge In the column of last week, the 17 goals for sustainable development were identified.
I like to tell the story of Tony Judt. Tony Judt was a writer on recent world history whom I greatly admire.
The right to question took centre stage last week in the National Assembly.
Introduction Today’s column reflects on a well-known hypothesis (forest transition theory), developed in research on the dynamics of forests in human societies.
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Boiled and sliced ground provisions work well as a side dish or the main starch to a curry or stew with lots of sauce/gravy.
Agapanthus commonly called African Lily or Lily of the Nile originated in South Africa.
The Golden Jubilee Independence celebrations around May 26, were full of fun, fetes, food and frolic.
Blue-and-yellow Macaws usually mate for life. They prefer to nest in dead palm trees as is the case here in the Botanical Gardens and they feed on a wide range of fruits, particularly palm nuts and leafbuds.
Last Sunday morning, the illegal Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) strolled without purpose in its usual manner, into the meeting room of the National Resource Centre.
Hi Everyone, A little over 2 weeks ago an exchange took place on Facebook between Vibert Cambridge and Henry Muttoo.
The word slow is not one you would associate with fashion and how the industry operates in the grand scheme of things.
Economic growth and net forest loss This week’s column continues with the exploration of the relationship between, on the one hand, Guyana’s population and real national income growth, and, on the other, its rate of net forest loss/deforestation, over similar long-term periods, (that is roughly from the early 1960s to the early 2000s).
Just before Bohemia on the Corentyne, East Berbice is the tiny village of Susannah, also called Number 15, a fairly obscure community as most persons refer to the road up to the Borlam turn as the “Nineteen Road,” although Number 19 is a few villages away.
There is no shortage of astute advice, or practical thinking about the region’s future.
Part 1 Tall order Eight months ago on September 25, 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/Res/70/1 which deals with the development agenda for a 15-year period.
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell fired a powerful salvo last week at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in the course of his Frank Worrell Lecture at the UWI Cave Hill Campus in Barbados.
On previous occasions we have offered surveys of different areas of Guyanese literature, from its origins in the oral literature of the native Amerindians in the pre-Columbian period, through the beginnings of the scribal literature—both Dutch and British—covering the colonial literature up to the founding of modern Guyanese national literature.
The work of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1953) is hardly known to English-speaking peoples.
The word ‘Pharaoh’ and other abuse reverberated around downtown Georgetown a week and a half ago, directed to an embarrassed Mr Bharrat Jagdeo.
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