Of the offences outlined in the Sexual Offences Act aimed at protecting children, section 18, titled “Sexual Activity with a Child by Abusing a Position of Trust,” is undoubtedly one of the most crucial.
As I look on and observe from an incredibly far distance while the nation’s teachers protest for both liveable wages and decent working conditions, I remember two stories my late Godmother who worked as a nurse in the public healthcare system shared with me growing up.
BERLIN (Reuters) – The story of Pepe, a hippopotamus from Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar’s private zoo, inspired Dominican director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias to make a film reflecting on the impact of colonialism, he said.
I was very much tempted this weekend to write about Devils, Bastards and Demons – the words used by self-styled ‘Elder’ and promoter of moral revivalism, former PNC ‘strongman,’ Prime Minister Hamilton Green.
Even at 90 treasures are available in what one reads.
● There is a scene in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence when the lovers, Ellen Olenska and Newland Archer, meet in the old Metropolitan Museum in New York in a deserted room containing antique fragments from vanished llium.
Making art cannot be taught. What can be taught are techniques in artmaking; how to use certain media or tools effectively, the right kinds of supports (surfaces on which to paint or draw) depending on media, or procedures for optimal results.
The Guyana Prize for Literature 2023 will be awarded on Friday March 1 in the dedicated Awards Presentation Ceremony at the National Cultural Centre at 7 pm.
Medino Abraham did not make the grade to attend Santa Rosa Secondary in Santa Rosa Village, Moruca, Region One (Barima/Waini); he attended Santa Rosa Primary Top and completed the Secondary Schools Proficiency Examinations then written by students in the community high school system, but today the 45-year-old religious and social educator is the holder of two university degrees.
In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket Roger Seymour looks at the oft overlooked Test career of Charlie Davis, the Trinidadian Boy Wonder.
(BBC) An 18-year-old Indian chess player has sparked a conversation on attitudes towards women in the sport with an Instagram post about her experiences.
Among the important cultural highlights of 2024 will be the Guyana Prize Literary Festival which is scheduled to take place between Thursday, February 29 and Sunday, March 3.