Daily Features

We take our own sweet time to solve the problems that beset us, unnecessarily dragging out the development of this nation, and the fulfilling of the potential inherent in the Guyanese soul.

Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters.

According to Prime Minister Hinds, Cheddi Jagan believed that national unity between the races and classes was so important to nation building that throughout his political life he attempted “new, bold and courageous alternatives to bring our people together” but died without his goal being realised.

Part 1   Commenting on the Sonu Nigam concert, Mr. Romain Khan wrote a very perceptive letter titled `The Nigam concert and false consciousness’ (Stabroek News on May 12, 2014).

By Jorge Familiar   Vice President of the World Bank for Latin America and the Caribbean It is no coincidence that the Globe International network of legislators has chosen Mexico as the venue for the Second World Summit of Legislators on climate change that will take place in the Mexican Congress this weekend (June 6-8).

By Kala Ramnath, Ph.D Originally from Trinidad & Tobago, Kala Ramnath is a disability rights/Autism Education advocate For the average Caribbean parent of a child with a developmental disability looking to help them achieve their greatest potential, the prospects have never been exactly bountiful.

Interviews and photos by Kenesha Fraser As the scourge of domestic violence (DV) continues throughout Guyana, this week, we asked men and women along the Essequibo Coast whether they felt enough was being done to help victims of DV and whether they knew where they could send victims for assistance.

So the inevitable has happened. The Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) met in Miami last week to review individual countries’ efforts to deal with anti-money laundering and countering of terrorist financing.

Privatization   This week I shall continue with the presentation of the second and third ‘other proposals.’

When I was a youngster growing up in West Demerara and going to Saints, we usually headed for the Pomeroon in the August school break.

Continued from last week   As was promised last week, we will deal with a condition known as ‘Hygroma’ or, as some scientists refer to it, a ‘False bursa’ or ‘bursitis.’

More than normally, our politicians seem to be tearing at each other’s throats.

When Barack Obama campaigned to be-come President of the United States he made clear that he was against what he described as ‘wars of choice,’ a reference to the way he saw George W Bush’s decision to invade Iraq.

Cuba’s first major independent newspaper in more than five decades — a digital daily called 14ymedio — was quickly blocked within the island last week, but the big question is for how long the country’s regime will be able to maintain its monopoly on the news media.

The first appointment of a Queen’s Counsel in England was that of Sir Francis Bacon, made by Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1594, for a political purpose.

Unique way In what could be a unique way to focus attention on the issue of poverty and how it could be tackled, the World Bank in its World Development Report 2014 points to the need for risk management by all economic units in an economy.

Wild animals are exported from Guyana to supply the global demand for exotic pets.

Mangoes of many varieties are in season and tis the time to enjoy this fruit to the full extent.

Brunfeisia pauciflora commonly called ‘Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ originated from Brazil, and is found throughout South and Central America.

China has won the women’s event in the Asian Nations Cup championship tournament that is currently being held in Tabriz, Iran.