Daily Features

Those who have had to experience my ‘lecturing’ about fat dogs will know that I have a fixation about emphasising the need to have our pets look lean and well conditioned, instead of fat from over-feeding. 

Bauhinia purpurea is commonly called the Orchid tree or Butterfly tree. 

Do you think you are entitled to women and their time?

Oh dear me… It’s not only because Guyana’s four major newspapers now feature about a “hundred” columnists, analysts and commentators that makes me unsure, intimidated sometimes, of what new issue to confront.

We see stormy waves kick up every so often as frustrated citizens demand justice, fair play and equal access to the corridors of power.

Thursday’s cartoon

The drive towards dominance has been successful largely because it has been furtive.

Dr. Arif Bulkan teaches constitutional law and Caribbean human rights law at the St.

When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is.

Concerns have been raised by the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association about cellular phone usage affecting productivity in the workplace.

Few politicians can be said to have been responsible for changing the way in which we think, let alone contributing to reshaping fundamentally the geo-political and economic environment in which we live, but that is what the late Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990, achieved.

Most polls show that Venezuela’s government candidate Nicolás Maduro is likely to win today’s elections thanks to an unfair election process in which the government controls an overwhelming share of TV time, but — even if he wins — Maduro’s future is gloomy.

The information from daily reportings of various traumas in a country, whether from government actions or personal behaviours, can become a surround creating a feeling of hopelessness in the citizens. 

Introduction As earlier indicated I intend to merge the ongoing discussion of Guyana’s public investment management into what is, hopefully, a fruitful consideration of the National Budget, 2013.

Introduction I closed last week by introducing a table which set out the transactions between Demtoco and other companies in the group.

As golden afternoon transmutes into silver evening and then into velvet darkness fretted by stars I sit to read and think and dream.

Formal exchanges of letters between the Minister of Finance, Dr Ashni Singh, and the Shadow Minister of Finance, Mr Carl Greenidge, seeking to fix a date for a meeting to discuss the proposed Budget, and the inevitable name calling when the exercise proved unsuccessful, ought to have alerted everyone that no serious discourse will take place.

Petrea, commonly called Purple wreath or Sandpaper vine comes from the Verbenaceae family and originated from Mexico and Central America.

If you like French Fries, then you’ll easily fall in love with these Sweet Potato Fries.

Continued Let’s continue with the matter of pregnancy in our companion animals.