Teachers struggle more than we know
“I don’t think people understand the job of a teacher. You see many persons talking about the holidays we get and we work from nine to three and five days a week.
“I don’t think people understand the job of a teacher. You see many persons talking about the holidays we get and we work from nine to three and five days a week.
Continued from last week: Rounding out a very good year for Carl E Hazlewood in 2022, Welancora Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, presented Racing Thoughts-Fever Dreaming: New Paintings by Carl E Hazlewood at Art Basel Miami Beach, from November 29 to December 3, 2022.
It’s the season of Lent – the period of 40 days leading up to Easter.
Due to a landmark High Court decision, men in Guyana can now apply to the High Court for their former wives to pay them maintenance and or alimony upon the dissolution or nullification of their marriage, and or while they wait for the marriage to be dissolved or nullified.
LUCAS STOCK INDEX (LSI) The second trading period in February 2024 has seen the Lucas Stock Index decline by 0.378 percent on the sale of 82,440 shares.
Introduction Last week’s column concluded my consideration of the first of four modelled drivers [that is, Guyana’s oil and gas resources and reserves] and their related metrics, as displayed in the analytical framework I am using here [see January 28, 2023 column.]
Industrial Ali calls on striking teachers to be patient: In his first public comment on the five-day-old teachers strike, President Irfaan Ali last Friday called for patience as he says he has promised incremental benefits but he was silent on why his government has not entered collective bargaining with the GTU over the last three and a half years.
When Alex D’Aguiar left secondary school at 15 years old, he never imagined himself achieving his childhood ambition of becoming a veterinarian, much less a medical doctor because he had not written the necessary science subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
In previous articles, we saw that under the Sexual Offences Act (“the SoA”), the age of consent is 16, and that any sexual activity, including sexual intercourse, with a child under the age of 16 is illegal, regardless of whether that child agreed to the sexual activity (see sections 10 and 11 of the SoA).
The feasting and celebration of the year of the Dragon has begun!
Kwasi Edmondson, widely known as “Kwasi Ace,” has always harboured a deep-seated desire to infuse his music with his cultural heritage.
One man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.
Reading between the lines of the reports coming out of the recent engagements between US Government officials and the Arab community in Michigan, it is clear that President Biden has lost a large section of Arab American support.
(The content of this article is based on a presentation given by the author for the Guyana Institute of Historical Research on November 11, 2023, and is published in honour of Black History month.)
What would you do if you found a piece of trash in your room?
This week, maybe because of nostalgia or just being thankful in the midst of this life that can be a cesspool at times, I wanted to share three experiences that just demonstrate that there are kind people out there and it is not all bad.
Our review of the year 2023 concludes with theatre, more specifically, an analysis of the dramatic plays performed during the year and recognition of the best achievements and performances.
Introduction As indicated in last week’s column, today’s column focuses on two items.
In 2023, a lot of tournament chess was being contested by eager schoolchildren and there has been an extraordinary rise in their advancement.
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