Daily Features

This week we spoke to attendees at last weekend’s Corriverton Town Day.

Introduction Another controversy in public procurement has erupted in recent weeks.

In two of the main centres of democracy, America and Europe, democracy is rapidly failing.

Introduction The Luncheonese in the heading is deliberate. Business Page of May 10 2009 wrote that the NIS faced real and disastrous consequences from Cabinet’s failure to act on the recommendations contained in the 2001 and 2006 Actuarial Reviews of the NIS.

Introduction In last week’s column I presented a graph, which illustrated both the downward trend and the wide variations in sugar production for Guyana over the last half-century or so.

Improving Public Accountability: The Guyana Experience 1985-2007 by Anand Goolsarran is an expert, in-depth analysis and discussion of many of the roiling governance issues that have existed for the last several decades, and which continue to bedevil local society. 

Narcotics trafficking through the Caribbean, and the associated criminality that accompanies it may be about to get worse.

Anything is possible in Venezuela’s elections today, but there is a good chance that opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski will do better than any of his predecessors in the polls, and that — win or lose — he will put President Hugo Chávez’s 14-year-old regime against the ropes.

If I had a wish for Domestic Violence Month, it would be that every female victim of this beastly crime would garner enough courage and foresight to testify against her offender.

Demography, Control – and image Two tiny introductory points:  It was once advanced that a stranger could judge a new society after a little while, by how that society treats its books, treats its animals and treats its old people. 

Installment One Hundred Forty Q: What is the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program?

How corrupt is the soul of our nation? When our leaders resort to the unethical behaviour of buying pirated textbooks for our school children to be educated, we know our nation’s soul lies in a moral mess.

“Even though, the growing ageing population and the concomitant changes this will bring are viewed as a major socio-economic challenge for Guyana, other competing development priorities have overtaken the national agenda.

Introduction Last week, we took a second look at the NICIL controversy in the light of the recent debate at the State-owned National Communications Network.

Interviews and photos by Shabna Ullah With GuyExpo 2012 on over the last weekend, we asked persons to share their views on the event.

By Myrtha Désulmé Myrtha Désulmé is President of the Haiti-Jamaica Society and the Caribbean Representative of the Haitian Diaspora Federation On 24 August, Tropical Storm Isaac pummelled Haiti, resulting in floods, mudslides, and storm surges; downed trees and power lines.

By Ronald Austin This week the 57th quadrennial presidential election of the United States entered its final phase.

Indicator Perhaps the single most revealing performance indicator of the state of Guyana’s sugar industry is to be found in its annual production figures.

Conclusion In the introduction to last week’s Business Page I pointed out that it was refreshing that the mid-year report was not only prepared within the statutory deadline but that the report was actually made public even before it was laid in the National Assembly which is presided over by the Speaker.

One year ago Europe made clear that it intended changing the basis on which it provides development assistance to the region.