Daily Features

By Dr Michelle Asantewa I didn’t set out to write books.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street for their take on the proposed six months of maternity leave for women.

It is frustrating, not to say humiliating, to think how much one is missing by not knowing any language except one’s own.

The frightening reality is that the race for the presidency in the US is so close, and getting so much closer, that Donald Trump may well win the presidency.

Introduction Based on the medium and long-term outlook of the world’s energy market, today’s column introduces two further policy lessons to guide Guyana’s planning for future oil and gas production and export.

Important planks In thinking about the issues of economic inclusion and social cohesion, the mind of this writer was drawn to the business organization known as the cooperative society. 

A few days ago the US President, Barack Obama, gave what in effect was a farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly.

Anyone who is fascinated, as I am, perhaps even enthralled, by Caribbean history, would have to have noticed our disposition for disregarding what has gone before.

By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent   GENEVA (Reuters) – The view outside the office of the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) dazzles, stretching across Lake Geneva to Alpine peaks.

A deep craving to add value to lives is what drives film director, playwright, script writer, novelist and poet Jude Idaba who is of the opinion that his words introduce cultures, which work to create a more tolerant society.

Dracena deremensis commonly called Janet Craig originated from Tropical Africa. Dracena Janet Craig is a greener version to Dracena fragrans commonly called Corn Plant and they are related to each other.

This dish of pasta and chicken is another one of those dishes where the food is made fast.

The Variable Chachalaca, formerly Little Chachalaca, is often found near clearings and forest patches with dense undergrowth where it feeds on fruit and berries both on the ground and in the trees.

Hardly anyone expected Guyana to qualify for a major international chess title.

In my last few articles, I’ve focused heavily on cardio and its benefits.

Sunday’s Cartoon

Sometimes it is difficult to be positive in a society where tragic events occur regularly.

I realise that, most likely, it is because I am at the cusp of plunging into the heart of that demographic that is the Guyanese elderly that I return to this theme almost annually.

Every Christmas season my money-minded maternal grandmother would travel down to the city by taxi, wearing her traditional starched white embroidered cotton headdress, with a fat duck or two in tow and baskets of freshly picked produce from her organic riverside farm to sell to my hopelessly outwitted father.

Just after the completion of the 19th Biennial Congress of his People’s National Congress Reform some three weeks ago, the chairperson of that party, Mr.