Daily Features

Few people understand how great the daily pressures are on a prime minister or a president.

  As we enter the New Year many—as they have done in the past—would have made resolutions they hope to keep during the year.

At 78, Eugene Lewis is the chairperson for her community and she supports herself by rearing chickens and ducks, coupled with produce from her fruit trees and she maintains that she wants it no other way since her independence is her greatest asset.

Focus and attention The national economy is usually divided up into four sectors, namely, agriculture, mining, manufacturing and services.

I do not usually make New Year’s resolutions. What I do throughout the year is make notes on what I want to accomplish both in the short and long term.

Eminent jurist Passes On… GUYANA’S lead­ing jurist, J.O.F. Haynes, S.C., Profes­sor of Law at the University of Guy­ana and President of the Grenadian Court of Appeal, [died last Wednesday at the Georgetown Hospital, after a “short illness.

The APNU+AFC Coalition Political Partners squeaked into power electorally in May 2015.

Jagan Denies Pressing for Communist State GOVERNMENT and the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), are at odds over what took place at the December 16 encounter beween Dr.

Definition of Transparency & Accountability Transparency and accountability are words often uttered in the same breath, but what do they mean?

Drugs department gears for crackdown THE Food and Drugs Department says that from February 3 licences for the importation of drugs will not be issued to persons not in posses­sion of the Certificate of Registration from the department.

Edward Ricardo (E.R) Braithwaite never lost his distinctive Guyanese but clear, crisp accent even though he spent most of his long life away from his South American birthplace.

Detractors aside, there is a large number of APNU+AFC supporters who are genuinely alarmed by its behaviour.

Power Barge to Boost Electricity Supplies To Be Installed by February, But Blackouts Will Continue By BERT WILKINSON A FULLY-RECONDITIONED 10-mega­watt power barge from the US is to be hooked-up to the Guyana Electricity Cor­poration system by the end of February, but blackouts will continue until new gen­eration facilities are built and until an IDB-funded rehabilitation of generating sta­tions is completed, it was announced here last weekend.

It is legally, morally and ethically wrong to deny payments to suppliers or contractors who, in good faith, have supplied goods and services or have satisfactorily executed works… In the final analysis, it is the taxpaying public that must come to the rescue of meeting the financial obligations of the Project which, with careful planning, and a highest possible degree of competitiveness, transparency and accountability, would have resulted in significant cost savings.

With about only 30 houses in total, Number Seven Village could very easily not be noticed, although Berbicians traverse what is well known as the Number 19 Public Road umpteen times per day.

In the course of some time spent this week with a visitor from Barbados, I heard a question I’ve been asked many times: “These songs you compose; where do they come from?”

Introduction There has been a veritable spate of commercial oil and gas discoveries since the 2000s.

Some time ago I received an email asking me how many five star hotels there are in the Caribbean.

(Conclusion) Continued attention and support In last week’s article, I indicated the reason that low-income workers appeared unenthusiastic about the relief that the 2017 budget has brought them. 

Even at this Christmas time, the spirit grows weary with the weight of woe in the world at large and at home in Guyana.