Daily Features

By Angelique V. Nixon Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist.

Disturbing stories are so common that often they are the focus for a day or two and then we wait for the next manifestation of the mental illness that permeates our society.

What drives someone to take their own life? This is a question that many have pondered as news of completed suicides reach them.

-Will we ever, ever enjoy `civilized’ electricity? So who are “PPP People” – mentioned in today’s lead caption?

Since the no-confidence motion (NCM) last December, the quarrel about what is and is not legal has been building in the public mind a healthy scepticism about the law.

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE – Is there such a thing as too much sanctity?

A few days ago, the Solomon Islands, Taiwan’s largest ally in the Pacific, recognised China.

By Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. Esther Figueroa, Ph.D. is an activist independent film maker, writer, linguist and educator who focuses on the environment, social justice, indigenous knowledges and local content.

Curse Defined as an expression of evil, misfortune or doom, many believe that curses are inexorable.

Once brimming with innovation and hopes of an economy bolstered by our own industries, the vibrant ambitions concerning our manufacturing sector seem to have long been shelved.

Elections: What’s to lose? Or gain?   -The Politics of Perks and Privilege   Though still a slight touch of poitics hereunder, I invite you-all to share some snap-shots of personalized nostalgia.

My “cha chi’s” childhood confidante from the community of Cane Grove made that finest of Indian milk sweets, the silky smooth “perah,” that she sold each Saturday, outside Stabroek Market.

Anyone closely associated with an ethnically divided society such as Guyana understands that because the saliency of ethnicity usually makes compromise difficult, much of the time is spent in or on the brink of political turmoil.

(This is the eighth of a series of articles by Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc on the Production Sharing Agreement signed between the Government of Guyana and Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil.)

Cruise tourism has become a big business, with the Caribbean now accounting for more than 35 per cent of all such vacations globally.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Amid much fanfare, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has completed a hundred days of its second term.

By D. Alissa Trotz and Christian Campbell D. Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora column.

This week’s article is a continuation of last week’s in which we provided a background to the United Kingdom’s (UK) proposed withdrawal from the European Union (EU), known as Brexit, following the referendum of June 2016.

A funeral service in the United States in early September, when signs of Fall, like mild chills, seep into the pores and linger for days.

Once famed as the world’s longest floating bridge at the time of its construction, the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) has served as the transportation link between West Bank Demerara and Georgetown for over four decades.