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Q: I am a US citizen and I want to vote in the next US presidential election, can I vote while I am living in Guyana?

By Brahma Chellaney Brahma Chellaney is the author of Asian Juggernaut and Water: Asia’s New Battleground.

This intervention was motivated primarily by a report in the Stabroek News that from ten Caribbean programmes which were highlighted as “best practices” for the provision of services to the elderly by the Third Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean, which took place recently in Costa Rica, Barbados was recognised for three of its programmes: the Home Care Programme, Nursing Pilot Project and its Information Communication Technology Programme.

The son of a high ranking member of the political directorate has just fatally hit a child on her way to school at a busy city intersection.

Interviews and Photos by Mandy Thompson This week we asked persons at the Amerindian Heritage Month exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre in Sophia their thoughts about the exhibition, what can be improved next year and what have they seen on display that is interesting.

By Marlise Andrews Think of a space where Caribbean artists meet to share and interact.

Introduction Last week, we looked at the Public Service Commission (PSC) that is constitutionally empowered to appoint, discipline and remove public officers.

Introduction Today I continue appraising the sugar industry (and GuySuCo) in view of the considerable European Union (EU) support and the further $4 billion transfer to GuySuCo from the National Budget 2012.

The Capybara or ‘Watrush’ as it’s known in Guyana is the largest rodent in the world. 

Introduction Here is a cheque drawn on the account of Clico – in Liquidation.

For those of you who would like a plant which thrives indoors, but cannot manage anything that is too demanding in terms of care and attention, then the Aglaonema is probably for you.

A 28-year-old miner was attacked and stabbed by a group of men at Mahdia, around 10 pm on Thursday as he was walking along the Public Road.

If there were any doubts that Republican candidate Mitt Romney is not a closet moderate but a true convert to his party’s extreme right wing, they should have been cleared by now.

This is a story with a number of levels.  One is simply musical, in that it involved a number of performers, all living in North America except me, in one concert called Caribbean North staged to help raise funds for the Burn Care Unit at our Georgetown Hospital.

By Ronald Austin The Republican Conven-tion is over. As I write, the Democratic Convention is about to begin.

Continued Further preparation This week, we’ll continue with the preparation of the two actors in the drama of canine reproduction.

More than sixty years ago – can it be so many years, gone so quickly, insubstantial as a dream?

In a matter of days, representatives of Caribbean civil society will meet in Trinidad to discuss the process of EPA implementation.

Last week, I wrote about local female musician Jackie Hanover, who has a song out that encourages women to be independent and to make a good life for themselves.

Letter-writers:  Prolific and Prominent Thoughts of the just-concluded Inter-Guiana Cultural Festival held in Georgetown, the Guyana Cultural Association, New York and its Labour Day week-end, Guyana-oriented Folk Festival and  the quite imminent preparations for the Mashramani 2013 Festival all combined to prompt these reflections and personal opinions on Festivals generally.