Daily Features

The Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is a large, bulky, barrel-shaped owl. 

Sansevieria commonly called Mother-in-law’s tongue or Snake plant originated in Africa.

Over the last few weeks, we have been discussing all those reasons, psychological and physical, why dogs will not mate.

I was more than a little taken aback at the negative response to my last column, which condemned the government’s involvement in bringing Chris Brown – a convicted woman beater – to perform in Guyana.

 -as reported in my Stabroek News… Both a recent visit to the United States Embassy’s Consular Section in Kingston, Georgetown and that component of the American Election Season which was the Presidential Debates, prompted this brief piece.

Despite that cynical gloom that shrouds this nation in languid apathy, one detects a wonderful sense of aliveness, of energy and a zest for life among Guyanese.

The current quarrel between the government, the Speaker of the National Assembly and the opposition over the content of the first Order Paper (parliamentary agenda) of this new parliamentary year keeps us in the same mode that has developed since the last general elections: a government blustering its way in the hope of finding an opportune moment to call a new election and an opposition determined to close the noose around the government’s neck.

Rory Fraser is Professor of Forest Economics and Policy at Alabama A & M University.

This week we asked the man and woman in the street their thoughts about R&B star Chris Brown coming to Guyana for a December 26 concert and about domestic violence activists condemning the government’s financial support to bring him.

The inadequacy of staffing at the various Ministries/ Departments/Regions, the lack of suitably qualified and trained personnel and the absence of internal audit departments in large ministries continued to militate against an effective system of internal control and have contributed significantly over the years to the deterioration in financial management at both the ministerial and central levels.

Introduction Last week I argued the realisation of sufficient economies of scale for Guyana’s sugar industry to make it globally competitive is unlikely simply because these would not result in a substantial lowering of the long-term average cost of production at output levels of 450,000 tonnes.

Two weeks later I am still sweating with the initial nervousness and horror and still dancing in the final exultation of our victory in the World Cup.

Introduction The 1986 lifting of the four and a half years ban on the importation into Guyana of wheaten flour was of national significance in our economic history.

The waterways within and around the Iwokrama Forest are home to an extremely high diversity of fish.

Last week, I mentioned that some dogs, having had so much contact with humans and so little with their own species, actually prefer human company, and I’d like today to continue with this theme.

One of the most sensitive subjects for the travel industry is the issue of security.

The Latin name Pentas refers to the plant’s five petalled flowers.

American presidential debate 2012 By R M Austin After the first debate in Denver, Colorado about two weeks ago, the supporters of President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party were in a state which could only be described as mourning.

Latin America’s growing media conspiracy We must give credit to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and several of his colleagues in Latin America for doing a masterful public brainwashing job – they have somehow convinced millions of people that there is a huge world capitalist media conspiracy out there, which needs to be urgently crushed through greater government press controls.

There are two sides of Chris Brown. One side is a violent man who can use his own two hands to mercilessly brutalise a woman he supposedly loves.