Daily Features

We are at the end of the series of TPC articles dealing with ailments associated with reproduction, and with the male and female reproductive organs. 

There was an unplanned theme in the words of the women who spoke at the One Billion Rising – Guyana event this past Thursday.

-A Meeting of Bernie’s Bandits Ordinary, working-class, proletarian, salt-of–the-earth Guyanese citizens often miss media reports of some significant events taking place here.

Inspiring people, accomplishing amazing feats, live all around us in our nation.

Beginning February 1, 2013, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) will begin collecting a $165 fee from applicants once they have been issued Immigrant Visas.

Commentators – some with consternation and the more cynical with much humour – have noted how the PPP, in relation to the new parliamentary configuration, has been unwilling to make any meaningful concessions to its hallowed commitment to majority rule.

This week we visited the Children’s Mashramani Competitions (costume and physical display) at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and asked schoolchildren for their opinion on which of the performances were the best so far and why?

Dr. Jeremy N. A. Matthews is Associate Editor at the American Institute of Physics (AIP) College Park, Maryland, USA, and a news writer and book reviews editor for AIP’s Physics Today magazine.

I do not care to know your various theories about God.

Now that the dust has settled and emotions have subsided, it might be a good time to dispassionately consider the meaning of the court’s decision in the Isseneru case which attracted some attention recently.

Part 2   Introduction This week I continue the discussion of the burden of Guyana’s public indebtedness since the official introduction of its rebased 2006 price series GDP estimates.

In recent weeks, probably propelled by fading hopes for “a new day” with our new Parliament, we have seen some stirring letters to the press citing Guyana’s diverse difficulties and calling for the citizenry to become more socially active.

It isn’t an exercise that makes much sense to try and rank poets in a sort of hierarchy of greatness.

Introduction The quotation taken from a judgment of US Supreme Court Judge Wiley Blount Rutledge is as true today as when it was handed down in a case nearly seventy years ago.

House Republicans don’t seem to get it. After getting pummelled by Hispanic voters in the 2012 election, they now want to create an underclass of 11 million people — mostly Latinos — by denying undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.

There are strong signs that the numbers of visitors from the US and Canada are once again on the increase, and the world’s most advanced developing economies, in-cluding China and Brazil, are returning to previous high levels of growth.

Events occurring over the past week dictate that I continue to dwell on this topic which appeared in last week’s column (not for the first time). 

Bougainvillea commonly called the ‘Paper flower’ originated in Brazil and the tropical region of South America.

I have already given my own reasons as to why I am rising at the One Billion Rising – Guyana event next Thursday, February 14 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm at the Promenade Gardens.

Exploring “Transactional” Sex Recall that last Friday I tickled Afro-centric representative organizations and other leaders of the “black” Afro- Guyanese community to reveal whether they are bothering with the traditional February–Black History/African Heritage Month observance.