Daily Features

It is now twelve days since the first of five days of community protest in Linden, when teargas and live rounds were fired into crowds of unarmed women, children and men, killing three men and injuring 20.

The Audit Office is committed to promoting good governance including openness, transparency and improved accountability through: (a) the execution of high quality audits; (b) timely reporting to the Legislature and ultimately the public; and (c) ensuring the independence and objectivity of the Office.

Part 5 Aftermath In last Sunday’s column I considered the overhang of poverty (extreme and moderate), inequality (consumption), and vulnerability as constituting challenges and threats to macroeconomic stability. 

Introduction In the 2012 Budget Speech, Dr Ashni Singh, Minister of Finance said: “Currently, in Linden, electricity costs between $5 and $15 per kWh, while on the GPL [Guyana Power and Light] grid customers pay an average of $64 perkWh.

I first played international sport when I represented Trinidad in lawn tennis as a schoolboy in 1949.

There are all sorts of strange tales about my song Not A Blade O’ Grass.

The idea of a comprehensive global trade round of the kind envisaged when governments met in Doha in November 2001 is dead for the foreseeable future.

It’s very nice of US politicians to express their grief over the death of Cuban dissident leader Oswaldo Payá, but if they really want to honour his memory, they should stop making aggressive statements that play directly into the hands of the Castro brothers’ dictatorship.

Have you ever thought of growing your own herbs in pots or window boxes? 

Continued Today, we will have a closer look at one of the main actors in the drama of reproduction – the brood bitch (the potential mother).

Iwokrama boasts over 1,500 species of flowering plants (and counting). As you travel along the Iwokrama road or walk along the trails in the forest you are likely to come across many spectacular flowers, like the Norantea.

Today we begin a weekly series on the presidential election campaign in the United States that looks beyond the news stories.

I have seen it stated over and over that the breakdown of the family structure is the cause of domestic violence.

Four, five days from today it’ll be time for the observance, the celebration, the jollification – soirees marking the anniversary of the 1838 emancipation of enslaved Africans from the British– owned sugar plantations of the British Guiana Colony.

Central Government in this country so pervades every nook and cranny of our society, that we see big government as the answer to our problems.

Central Government in this country so pervades every nook and cranny of our society, that we see big government as the answer to our problems.

It is generally believed that the presidency of Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo constituted one of the most autocratic periods in the post-independence political history of Guyana in spite of the fact that he did not have control of both the government and the PPP the way Cheddi and Janet Jagan did.

Introduction In last week’s article, I discussed the constitutional and legislative arrangements relating to the Government’s procurement systems.

Photos and interviews by David Papannah Given the tremendous impact it has been having on our country, a team including government officials is going around the country talking to people about the domestic violence situation in Guyana.

It is now five days since the deadly events in Linden, in which three men were shot dead by the police during a day of community protest.