Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill Assuredly, demonstrating a negative attitude with clear absences of transparency, prime examples of high-handedness and pellucid cases of disinterest is tantamount to courting disaster, and has contributed the demise of many.
Sunday’s Cartoon
Crocus commonly called Rain Lilies in Guyana originated in the Mediterranean Region and South West Asia and is a member of the Iris family.
In our lifetime, we will see thousands of faces. Facial expressions can give hints about what troubles the heart and what makes it happy.
The American “Solidarity Forever” trade union battle song was meant to say it all: in unity there is working-class strength; strength to negotiate workers’ rights even though there should be no need to have to “bargain” for just rewards.
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce an initiative that will allow applicants more flexibility in picking up their visas and immigration packets.
If nothing else, in our condition, secondary school placements based on the single Grade 6 assessment (NGSA), like its predecessor the Secondary School Secondary Examination (SSEE), will do nothing to aid stakeholder participation and thus will be anti-working class.
Introduction Is there anything, our personal ethics aside, that governs or regulates the way we interact with others?
The previous two essays in this series express the point that government officials have an inherent incentive to renege on promises of good governance once they attain power.
Judging from the latest primary results and new polls that have just come out, I have a growing feeling that Latinos will save America from Donald Trump.
By Ambassador Perry Holloway United States of America Embassy Georgetown GEORGETOWN—In the United States the press is often referred to as the “fourth estate” because it is viewed as independent and equally important to the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government.
By Cynthia Barrow-Giles Cynthia Barrow-Giles is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
Three matters that made the news in recent days deserve brief commentaries.
Earth Day 2016 Signing ceremony As indicated last week, Guyana, together with 174 other nations, have all reportedly signed on to the Paris Agreement, finally negotiated last December (2015).
A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship.
In a book written on Voltaire I learn of his beloved mistress Madame de Chatelet.
Controlled circumstances Guyana is one of 193 member states of the United Nations.
The recent publication of the forensic audit into the Gold Board has raised concerns about its operations.
Eating clean (most of the time) and working out are some of the key elements for fat loss or maintaining an athletic physique year round.
Last Thursday and Friday, former world chess champion Garry Kasparov opposed new US champion Fabiano Caruana, and the other two top finishers of the 2016 US championship, namely Wesley So and Hikaru Nakamura, in a sensational blitz contest.
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