Introduction Recently, while examining the archival material in my possession on GuySuCo, I came across three documents which I believe readers would find instructive at this stage of my consideration of the sugar industry.
‘Education, education, education’, was the expression used by Britain’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to describe his three main priorities just before he first took office.
Introduction Dr Roger Luncheon, Chairman of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and chief spokesperson for the Government is denying the reality of the parlous state of the NIS.
The Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) is a frumpy looking ground-dwelling, bird that can be found in tropical rainforests throughout the tropics.
Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, whose marvellous collection of essays The Redress of Poetry I like to re-read, writes that WH Auden’s elegy for Yeats was “a rallying cry that celebrates poetry for being on the side of life, and continuity of effort, and enlargement of the spirit.”
Last week we mentioned that the main cause of infertility in the bitch is an infection in the womb (uterus) or in some other area of the reproductive tract.
While many of us were focused on the elections in Mexico, Venezuela and the United States in recent months, a dangerous trend has gone almost unnoticed in the region — the slow death of the region’s human rights system.
By R M Austin (Caribbean Challenges: Sir Shridath Ramphal’s Collected Counsel (Hansib 2012.
Have you heard the rumours? The talk on the street is that snap elections may happen early next year.
“Shubh Diwali, Happy Mashramani” Not having attended Secondary School, much more the local University, my unlettered, uncertified “inferiority complex” intrudes whenever I make bold to comment on things related to our highest tertiary institution, the University of Guyana (UG).
Official world reports continue to paint an awful picture of our homeland.
Cross Border Career Stretch in the Teaching Profession (cont’d) Since the idea is not to prevent but rather to facilitate an overseas career for those who wish it and have performed well, government can be more proactive in arranging such recruitment and putting reengagement incentives in place.
LONDON – In the coming days and weeks, critics will try to minimize what voters in the US states of Colorado and Washington accomplished by backing referenda permitting marijuana legalization and regulation.
This article is premised on a belief that any act of corruption within any public or private institution should be exposed.
By Abinaya Balasubramaniam Abinaya Balasubramaniam is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto Editor’s Note: This week’s column comes from a Sri Lankan – Canadian university student, who is also taking courses in Caribbean Studies.
The abuse of the Contingencies Fund continued unabated despite comment to this effect in previous PAC reports.
Their vision for Linden Town Week 2013 Interviews and photos by Cathy Richards Stakeholders in Linden have begun to pool their ideas for next April’s Linden Town Week celebration.
One man is running a company with the help of three old family retainers, two others who haven’t had a new idea in a couple of generations, and a whole raft of school drop-outs.
Gloriosa rothschildiana is better known in these parts as the Gloriosa lily, or the Glory lily.
Macaws are large, dramatic birds, of the Psittacidae family which also includes parrots.
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