Daily Features

On March 29, after forty years of membership, the British government formally gave notice that it will leave the European Union (EU) in 2019.

In this week’s edition of In Search of West Indies Cricket, in the first of two parts, Roger Seymour looks at the early cricketing life of Jackie Grant.

The Cream-coloured Woodpecker is unique among woodpeckers for its pale yellow plumage and brown wings.

Resistance training for women has been undergoing a massive re-birth in fitness culture over the last few years.

Attorney-at-law James Anthony Bond was elected president of the Guyana Chess Federation (GCF) last Sunday at Olympic House.

These Cheese-scallion Rolls pay homage to Chinese Scallion Pancakes. Chinese Scallion Pancakes are like a flaky paratha roti in which sliced scallions are rolled with the dough and then pan-fried.

Barleria repens commonly called Coral Creeper originated in South Africa. The Coral Creeper is a scrambling flowering shrub with glossy green leaves and coral (reddish/orange) tubular flowers.

There are almost two hundred thousand people living in Georgetown. Yet, I am often asked by acquaintances about places to rent in the city.

Myths and legends and fairy-tales. They’re the stuff that traditions are born of; the sort of stories that provide a familiarity that we find compelling and even protective.

For a long time I’ve wanted to both rebuke and defend (new) government ministers with respect to their attitudes to (their) voters.

DEMERARA CHANNEL The Demerara Channel was dredged extensively during 1968 by a chartered foreign owned suction dredge to facilitate the carriage of increased tonnes of bauxite from the transshipment vessel permanently moored in the harbour of Georgetown.

The United States Embassy is happy to answer some questions about the process of applying to universities in the United States.

As children, we dreaded the regular cathartic “clean-outs” our determined parents deemed necessary for holistic health and harmony.

Georgetown Prison THE INMATES at the Georgetown Prison are calling for the setting up of a Parliamentary Committee — of all parties in Parliament, as well as the Guyana Council of Churches, the Guyana Human Rights Association and the TUC to urgently investigate certain practices at the Georgetown Prison.

She enjoys the freedom her job offers but remains… Committed To Her Customers IF YOU happen to be in Linden and want to look your best on a limited budget Leota’s Fashion World is the place to go.

Now that we have reached a hiatus in the confrontation between the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) and the Mayor and City Council, it may be as good a time as any to attempt to determine what that confrontation represented in terms of some possible futures of the movement.

The Trump administration’s highly unusual step of boycotting several sessions of the highly respected Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) was a bad mistake that will weaken US efforts to condemn Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador and other systematic human rights abusers.

IN A surprise raid late last week the Guyana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) impounded a large number of unfor­tunate animals and arrested several owners.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street if more emphasis should be placed on arts education in schools.

Justin Podur interviews Joan Joy Grant Cummings Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer who blogs at podur.org.