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This is a Rupununi Rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus trigonicus) that was found last October while the World Wildlife Fund-Guianas and Global Wildlife Conservation were conducting a survey in Guyana’s south Rupununi savannah.

Later this year China will become the world’s largest economy, overtaking the United States roughly five years earlier than was previously expected.

The following game was the most anticipated one of the Gashimov Memorial tournament.

Donald M Beaudette is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Political Science of Morehouse College.

Flowers are loved for their beauty. There are simply beautiful shades of yellow, pink, salmon, blue, white, red, orange and purple blooming everywhere as the Easter season is upon us.

The political landscape of this country has for some time now been a theatre for acerbic insults and narrow-mindedness.

Seven Self-Employed Bandits, Crime as “Employment” Not with an actual “heavy heart” but with some deliberation, I restrained myself from personal commentary on yesterday’s Labour Day or on Monday’s Arrival Day.

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

Clinton Urling wants to make a difference in how young Guyanese become leaders within their communities.

US Embassy Georgetown Visa Fair When: Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 10am-2pm Where: Main & Bentinck Streets (outside Embassy Warehouse) Are you planning to travel to the United States soon?

“The finance minister in a Third World country should have the ability to present his annual budget as a package that cannot be amended, only approved or denied as a whole ….

The purpose of this column is to propose a non-exhaustive list of possible solutions for the crisis facing the sugar industry, a crisis mainly brought about by several political decisions over the years.

By Harry T. Hergash Harry Hergash, a graduate of the University of Guyana, taught at the Annandale Government Secondary from 1964 to 1969.

I claim to be no more than an average man with less than average ability.

Interviews and photos by Kenesha Fraser The National Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair 2014 was held last week at the Anna Regina Secondary School, Essequibo Coast in Region Two under the theme ‘Science, Mathematics and Technology: Providing Solutions for the 21st Century’.

Story and photos by Dacia Whaul Like many of its sister villages on the West Coast of Demerara, De Kinderen was “bare bush” when locals and foreigners began to cultivate the land.

Three years after the Sexual Offences Act (2010) came into effect and over a year after amendments were made to the act, the National Task Force for the prevention of sexual offences and the sexual offences unit mandated under the law, are yet to become a reality.

I think there must be a majority of Guyanese deeply worried that the festering animosity between the political parties and the incessant jockeying for position and narrow-spirited search for partisan advantage is greatly harming Guyana’s progress as a nation.

In a wide-ranging, courageous and innovative decision, the Indian Supreme Court ruled a few weeks ago that transgenders, a broad category of persons with varying gender situations, identities and issues, are entitled to the protection of the Indian Constitution.