Daily Features

With the holiday season over, we are left with some extra pounds and lots of fat to burn.

How on earth does a man slash his wife’s throat, stab her multiple times and still walk the streets afterward?.

– My dear Mayor Green – Let’s text for Young Bill Greetings to my layman, man-in-the-street, fellow citizens especially.

High Commissioner of Guyana to Canada, Harry Narine Nawbatt, and Sattie Sawh, Consul General in Toronto, Ontario, hosted a New Year’s get-together at the Guyana Consulate office in Toronto last Friday.

Minister Rohee’s announcement that the government has agreed to change the name of the police in Guyana from the Guyana Police Force to the Guyana Police Service was greeted by some of my drinking colleagues with much hilarity.

Introduction: The importance of credible signals The seller of a used car knows the history and quality of the car much more than the buyer who walks into the show room.

By Cyril Bryan A graduate of Central High School and Pupil Teacher at Lusignan School from 1955-1960, Cyril Bryan migrated to Canada in 1966, where he attended York University to study Economics.

This week we asked the man/woman in the street about how they spent their Christmas holidays  and their expectations for the New Year.

Situated almost on the outskirts of Georgetown along the East Coast of Demerara is the community of Vigilance.

Introduction If NICIL – the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Limited – was a play, it would be one that challenges Othello and King Lear for the dubious distinction of saddest tragedy ever written. 

While Venezuela’s announcement that President Hugo Chávez’s bout with cancer has taken a turn for the worse is making big headlines, there is another development in the Venezuelan drama that has gone almost unnoticed: high-level US-Venezuelan talks preparing for a post-Chávez future may have already started.

We live in a world which seems to take little interest in joy.

A few days ago the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel challenged the way in which Europeans think about the world and what they have come to expect from their governments. 

Measuring debt burden As I proceed with the discussion of the debt crisis, the first issue that should be clarified is how to determine the burden of public or sovereign indebtedness among countries.

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, commonly called Christmas Kalanchoe is loved by everyone. It originates from Madagascar and is a tropical succulent  flowering plant with thick fleshy spoon-shaped dark green leaves. 

In the ‘Pet Corner’ columns just before Christmas, we concluded our discussions on maladies associated with the female genital tract and reproduction. 

Just 238 words. That was how many words were dedicated to violence against women in Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee’s 6,048-word statement about the new Public Safety and Security Strategy that he proudly released to the media.

-The Wealth of the Wicked There are just hours before Christmas 2012-2013 formally ends.

Could our Guyanese nation resolve to make 2013 the best year in our history?

If anything proves that the PPP/C has discounted receiving African votes in the near future it must be its decision to change the proposed site of the 1823 monument from the Independence Square to Carifesta Avenue and its administratively incorrect and flimsy excuse for doing so!