Daily Features

If you’re looking for an easy dessert that uses mostly fruit, then you’ve hit the jackpot when you make a fruit soup.

Last week I spoke about Cordyline terminalis with sword-like leaves. This week I continue with Cordyline terminalis with broad leaves also commonly known as Ti Plant.

For the past few nights I have been experiencing chocolate cravings—Cadbury is my brand of choice—which is a no-no since I am preparing for a show in two weeks.

I was dreading the process of getting my passport renewed since the beginning of this year.

Quite often, when guilty, immoral or indifferent persons are confronted with deeds or thoughts which are negative to good order, to righteousness, even national development, they slink and hide behind one mantra: “It happen everywhere, not only in Guyana.”

Thursday’s Cartoon

About a week ago, with ‘tears in their eyes’, some of the executive members of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) shared with the Stabroek News ‘their bewilderment at the lack of movement on the part of the administration to begin the collective bargaining process despite making several public statements about its importance’ (GPSU alarmed at gov’t lack of engagement on public service wage talks).

By Saieed Khalil   Author’s note: On Saturday June 25th, the University of Guyana’s Diploma of Social Work Class of 2014-2016 in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Protection, will be hosting a walk to raise awareness of domestic violence.

Pope Francis is very popular around the world, but there are growing signs that his popularity is dwindling in his own country, Argentina.

This week, citizens were asked what they believe should be the government’s focus in the upcoming year having recently completed their first year in office.

By Maurice Tomlinson Maurice Tomlinson is a Jamaican attorney at law and senior policy analyst with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. 

This is the fourth in a series of articles on public financial management in Guyana’s post-Independence period.

Bryan Hunt has proven that you don’t have to dress like a diplomat to excel at being one.

Recently I read two poems which I want to share without much commentary – partly because they speak for themselves.

Introduction At present, several prominent geographers and forest analysts give strong support to the forest transition hypothesis, which I have been evaluating in recent weeks.

Projected growth The World Bank has revised its projections for the global economy for 2016. 

When Beverley Ann Munesar found out last year that she had breast cancer, she accepted it as a challenge that she was prepared to fight and win.

It is clear from a recent visit to Washington that there is a renewed interest in the Caribbean and that its concerns are back on the US agenda. 

At 17 years old, Michael (not his real name) is very optimistic about his future and he has vowed to make himself an honest man and to be a real father to any children he might ever have, even though all of the odds seem to be stacked against him.

Sometimes, and particularly in a country such as ours with no organized screening programme, prostate cancer is detected late.