Daily Features

By Janette Bulkan and John Palmer This article seeks answers to two questions.

Contrary to what former Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and other members of the U.S.

By Samuel Braithwaite   Samuel Brathwaite is a lecturer in the Department of Economics, the University of the West Indies, Mona   Introduction In May of this year, I was asked by Prof.

There must be no compromise on integrity, no allowance for arrogance, no room for violation of mutual respect; there will be no sacrifice of our values on the altar of political expediency.

Photos by Oliceia Simon-Tinnie   This week we asked the man/woman in the street for their views on how the Mayor and City Council has performed since historic local government elections in March this year.

Energy use The issue of sustainable development is something that Guyana will not be able to ignore going into the future. 

Introduction Today I begin to address the third and final sub-sector in this long-running series of columns on the extractive industries sector of Guyana.

Sveinsson Knut, Canute the Great, King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018 and King of Norway from 1030 until he died in 1035, was perhaps the most successful and effective of the early rulers of England.

In 1838, as former slaves were celebrating the abolition of slavery the British colonial empire, Jesuit priests of Georgetown University in Washington DC, in the US, were selling 272 slaves to Southern estates to raise funds for the university.

Our esteemed Kaieteur News pundit Adam Harris, known for his daily fanciful dissertations, has dealt with some intriguing subjects in his time, but I cannot let Brother Adam’s recent comment on persons wearing “dark glasses” pass unchallenged. 

In the middle of last month Danilo Medina was sworn in as President of the Dominican Republic for a second term.

A question I get asked a lot is what type of cardio is more effective for burning fat and maintaining muscle mass.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

Are you enjoying the bounty of in-season avocado? I hope so.

Alocasia sanderiana commonly called Sacred Heart Lily or Kris Plant originated from the Philippines and belongs to the Araceae family.

“Thief! Thief!”   As a child, you dreaded hearing those words, especially in the stillness of the night.

I suspect that it’s because “hope springs eternal (in the human breast/spirit”) that I return to the issue of the status, role and effectiveness of our Guyana Police Force or Service.

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Once upon a time, a real long time ago, one of my two marvellous mothers, the much older one, used to scare the living daylights, dying night-dimmers and all bodily discharges out of me and my friends, often at the same time, by telling us what she would generically and euphemistically term, ‘jumbie stories.”