Iana Seales

One of the most important ongoing social struggles in this country is the fight for a minimum wage that will allow workers and their families, especially single-parent households, to live at a minimally decent standard.

Just minutes before midnight on December 31, Carlisa Matthews was shot dead allegedly by her former partner.

One thing our political leaders do well is articulate how eager they are to work together.

We assembled at the Umana Yana for 10 am on Monday.

Experts agree that climate change is impacting floods, droughts, typhoons and other natural disasters and we see the devastating effects across the world, from typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to devastation in China, Haiti, Illinois and Sardinia.

Public confidence in our criminal justice system is most likely at a new low following the dismissal of the murder charge against cricketer Carlyle Barton.

In September this year, Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell called on citizens to wage war with criminals.

For too long indifference has plagued our criminal justice system—we are criminalising substance abusers, not rehabilitating them; we are expanding our prisons, not reducing their populations; and we are dismantling gangs across the country, not rebuilding lives and communities.

Increasingly we are operating in a society where tyranny in the workplace has become a threat to both freedom and dignity of work.

The spectre of extra-judicial killings continues to cast a wide shadow over a significant number of recent police shootings, which have left several young men—mostly from deprived communities— dead.

For a long time now, Guyana has been a nation ripe with civic displeasure as expressed in personal decisions to disengage from the electoral process and on a more crucial level, the decision to simply pack up and leave.

Democracy in Guyana is equated with voting and so after elections people go back to their lives without realising the vote was just the beginning.

In the lead-up to the general elections, former Stabroek News journalist Iana Seales is writing a series of articles on Guyana, focusing on life, democracy, and the responsibility to vote.

We were mostly strangers, checked in at different hours with a common aim; to get on the next flight out of New York to Guyana scheduled by Caribbean Airlines.

I like Amy Winehouse.  I’ve always liked her even on the days when she was the most talked about singer hooked on a crack pipe.

Classique brags about its contemporary strengths and has been criticized for failing to bring enough depth to a stage, but it is solid and if anything was worth seeing within the past few days, it was its interpretation of Lady Gaga’s hit “Born This Way”.

Trade unionist Gillian Burton sits on the Women and General Equality Commission (WGEC) to “make right the wrongs” being perpetrated against women in the society, and this past year she has seen enough to say that too little is being done for women here.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday announced a $300M severance package for Diamond sugar workers, saying that government decided to disburse the monies and end a court battle which could have dragged on for years.

PNCR presidential candidate David Granger faced the business community yesterday promising to tackle crime, overhaul the education system and revive the economy if he wins the presidency later this year, but he was also forced to address yet again questions about his involvement in the 1973 elections.

Sugar would be dead without the political commitment of the administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at the opening of the new packaging plant at Enmore, where he predicted a brighter future for the industry under a Donald Ramotar-led government.