Daily Features

It does not matter if you are one of the most avowed critics of Cheddi Jagan.

Introduction This series of columns focuses on the strategic interactions among four groups divided up along class and ethnic lines.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street what is improving in Guyana and what could be done to improve the country.

Wealth and honour are what each person desires. But if they have been obtained in violation of moral principles, they must not be kept.

By Zenita Nicholson Zenita Nicholson is a Guyanese human rights advocate and Secretary on the board of trustees for the Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD).

“999 steps,” the locals say. Ask who counted the steps and if they really are sure it is 999 steps up the mountain, all you get is a shrug or a laugh and a quietly determined “999 steps.”

Introduction Earlier this week I sent to Mr Winston Brassington, the head of Atlantic Hotel Inc, (AHI) the company financing the construction of the hotel complex a number of questions dealing mainly with the construction phase.

Rhoeo spathacea commonly called Moses-in-the-cradle originated from the tropical areas of Central America. 

Right now the temperature of partisan dispute, and tempers on all sides, are rising sharply.

The annual Babu John memorial rally for Cheddi Jagan is to be held on March 3.

Somewhere in the early ’80s, Tradewinds came to Guyana to take part in Mashramani with a substitute bass player, Burman Scott, from Cayman.

Brazil, South America’s biggest country, may become a global economic superstar in the future, but it will have to stop being an inward-looking giant.

Economic efficiency In last week’s column I concluded the series of columns commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Third World Debt Crisis (TWDC) and addressing the performance of Guyana’s public indebtedness since then.

If you are over the age of forty it is probable that you will remember when intra-Caribbean air services were frequent, costs were low, and travel taxes and security were almost non-existent.

Continued from last week We have arrived at the point where we may discuss the final and most reliable method of birth control – the spay.

No matter if I’ve only been gone from Guyana for a couple weeks, whenever I return and start to go about my business, it is always such a culture shock to see the way men treat women on the streets and about town.

Do you realize that it was a mere thirteen years after 1763 that the American colonists, (rather “rebelliously”), declared their break-away and independence from Britain?.

News reports in the State media show that senior Government officials persist in branding independent thinkers in this country as agents of the “opposition”.